Cribl is announcing the acquisition of CardinalOps, bringing agentic detection engineering to Cribl’s AI Platform for Telemetry and giving security teams a more open alternative to the SIEM they run today, without forcing them back into the same tradeoffs.
CardinalOps continuously assesses detection coverage, maps detections to real adversary behavior, finds the gaps, and fixes broken or noisy rules. Paired with Cribl’s AI Platform for Telemetry, the company now provides a full end-to-end security solution, according to Cribl.
“I want to be clear about what CardinalOps is and isn't. It isn't "the SIEM." It's one of the key capabilities you need to build something better than the old model. Detection engineering is a big part of effective security operations. Cribl already provides the telemetry foundation underneath it,” Clint Sharp, co-founder and CEO at Cribl, wrote in a blog post about the acquisition.
The integration of CardinalOps technology into the Cribl platform will bring Cribl's security capabilities together into a complete, open alternative to legacy SIEM architectures, the company said.
Security teams are under pressure to process more telemetry, move faster against threats, and control the rising cost and complexity of their environments. With CardinalOps, Cribl can help customers connect those priorities: use telemetry more intelligently, continuously validate and improve detections, and do it in a way that lets customers modernize at their own pace, using the tools and architectures that make the most sense for their environment.
With CardinalOps, Cribl is adding foundational detection engineering capabilities to its AI platform, bringing the same open, AI-native model to the SIEM category itself: everything a SIEM does, on telemetry infrastructure customers already own. That federated foundation also allows Cribl to layer new security and observability solutions on the same shared telemetry foundation, giving customers more flexibility and better economics as they modernize their environments in the AI era, the company said.
“Too many security teams have good data, powerful tools, and endless alerts, but no real confidence that they are actually protected,” said Michael Mumcuoglu, co-founder and CEO of CardinalOps. “We built CardinalOps so SOC teams could understand and improve coverage instead of just managing more noise. Joining Cribl lets us bring that directly into the telemetry layer and build what the market needs next: an open, AI-native alternative to the SIEM, where customers pay for better protection, not more data volume. That's what we're building next."
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