We recently announced RADICL’s $31M Series A to accelerate work we believe is essential to the security of the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB)and critical infrastructure.
Small and midsize businesses (SMBs) support some of the most sensitive and operationally critical programs in the country. They invent and manufacture technology and materials critical to our national security. Their operations are critical to our economy and ability to defend ourselves in the event of a conflict. These companies are being actively targeted by sophisticated nation-state threat actors for industrial espionage and denial of operations efforts.
They unfortunately don’t stand a chance. So long as I’ve been in cybersecurity, SMBs have been left behind:
This SMB defense-in-depth and 24/7 incident response capability gap continues to threaten our national security, and it is about to get worse.
Nation-state threat actors (and cybercriminals) are and will leverage AI to accelerate and force multiply their efforts. The reported use of Claude Code by a presumed nation-state threat actor is a stark warning of what’s to come. Sophisticated offensive operations that previously may have taken hours or days were executed in seconds, automated and augmented by AI. And not just against one company, against dozens in parallel!
Today, most SMBs would struggle to detect and respond to a motivated threat using 100% human operations. Their visibility layer, threat monitoring layer, and incident response operations are most often lacking – constrained by inferior technology and teams of 1, or MSSPs offering “affordable”, scaled-down capabilities.
These companies and their service providers are about to be hit in the face with the reality of modern cyber threats. There is an adversarial AI tsunami on the horizon, and it will pack a mean punch.
RADICL was built to stand in the way of these future threats and truly protect SMBs.
We’re building anAI-native autonomous virtual SOC that will fight adversarial AI with defensive AI. By moving core SOC functions into software, we enable hardening, detection, and response operations to run continuously and at machine speed.
Our approach tackles the two fundamental problems SMBs face: cost and context. The cost of an in-house SOC is untenable. Few SMBs can afford the necessary tech or team. Outsourced SOCs via MSSPs lack context. They don’t deeply understand the protected and monitored IT infrastructure nor the business it supports – resulting in slow or avoided analysis and decisions.
With RADICL, organizations can realize an affordable, contextually aware vSOC capability in a service-as-a-software model. Our technology and team seamlessly become theirs, delivering defense-in-depth operations that are increasingly augmented by AI, yet still backed by human intelligence - when that is the best intelligence.
With the RADICL vSOC, SMBs:
At LogRhythm (now merged with Exabeam), we pioneered next-gen SIEM and ushered in the era of Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR). The LogRhythm platform powered thousands of SOCs across the globe and served as the backend for hundreds of MSSPs. We learned a lot from that experience.
RADICL is a continuation of that work, re-built for a world where speed and automation are no longer optional.
We’re pairing operational experience with an AI-native architecture that automates work that historically required large teams and myriad tools. The result is that SMBs can access the maturity and depth of enterprise security operations without enterprise-level overhead.
Based on our internal analysis, a large portion of SMBs supporting the DIB struggle to meet baseline security and compliance requirements. These gaps create a real risk for sensitive data and the integrity of America’s defense supply chain and critical infrastructure.
Securing our Series A allows us to:
Cyber defense will increasingly be defined by whether organizations can operate at the speed of modern threats. It is soon a world of adversarial AI vs. defensive AI. With this investment, we are excited to accelerate our mission of better protecting SMBs through radical innovation.
When our Series A closed, Daniel Karp, General Partner at Cervin Ventures, wrote that "...we believe RADICL is positioned to capture a massive opportunity in an SMB cybersecurity market where spending is growing faster than enterprise and with regulatory pressure increasing. In a fragmented market with no dominant player serving SMBs, RADICL has a category defining company opportunity ahead."