CardinalOps, founded in 2020 by security experts, offers a SaaS platform that incorporates an attacker viewpoint and machine learning to enhance threat detection. Its technology automates processes and optimizes the use of existing detection tools. The platform is positioned to address gaps between the current cybersecurity market and its potential by improving detection resilience. The company emphasizes automation and ML-driven workflows to detect and respond to sophisticated attacks. According to the article, the investment will support the company's commercial expansion amid a growing and increasingly complex threat landscape. CardinalOps offers a cloud-based, AI-powered analytics platform that continuously recommends best-practice detection rules and queries mapped to MITRE ATT&CK and tailored to an organization’s risk priorities. The platform delivers recommendations in the native query languages of widely used security analytics solutions such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, IBM QRadar and CrowdStrike, enabling faster, lower-error detection engineering. By automating the work of skilled detection engineers, CardinalOps helps teams close high-risk threat coverage gaps and maximize existing SIEM/XDR investments. The company launched in early 2021 and protects several large, complex organizations, including a Fortune 50 consumer products company, a top 10 U.S. law firm, a top 10 cable operator, and a leading MDR/MSSP. Leadership includes CEO Michael Mumcuoglu and CMO/Vice President of Cyber Defense Strategy Phil Neray. The advisory board features industry figures such as Anton Chuvakin, Dan Burns and Randy Watkins.

Total raised

$18M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Series A

Latest activity

Mar 2022