Cisco vs SentinelOne

Cisco — Hardware · Public · $433.3B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced  |  SentinelOne — Application · Public · $7.5B mkt cap · 4 of 4 figures sourced

Relationship

Cisco AI Defense and Singularity Cloud Security do comparable work on data security and threat detection and response; both also serve buyers who need to detect and respond to security threats; smaller scale (public).

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

4 of 17 capabilitiesShared product typeSmaller scale

4 of 17 capabilities — Shares data analysis, data security, guardrails and safety and 1 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship AI agent and application.

Ludbee product records

Smaller scale — SentinelOne: $7.5B market cap, against Cisco's $433.3B market cap.

Ludbee scale figures · valuation, market cap or revenue estimate

Aligned comparison

FieldCiscoSentinelOne
Market cap$433.3B$7.5B SentinelOne has 58× smaller
Employees86,2002,900 SentinelOne has 30× fewer
Founded19842013 29 yrs later
StatusPublicPublic match
CategoryHardwareApplication
Stack layerAI agent, Application, HardwareAI agent, Application, Data service, Platform
HeadquartersSan Jose, USAMountain View, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 4

Data analysisData securityGuardrails and safetyThreat detection and response

Not verified for SentinelOne · 13

Accelerator siliconAgent orchestrationAI compute hardwareCustomer supportEvaluation and observabilityInterconnectModel inferenceModel trainingServer systemsSpeech to textSummarizationVoice agentWorkflow automation

Recorded for Cisco. SentinelOne’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

SentinelOne has no capability Cisco lacks, among the 4 recorded here.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

Cisco

Application

AI Assistant for Webex Contact CenterApplication

AI assistant for contact-centre agents and supervisors that produces call and transfer summaries, live transcription, suggested chat replies, topic analytics, automatic CSAT scoring and agent burnout signals.

Cisco AI CanvasApplication

AgenticOps workspace where teams and AI agents collaborate to investigate, correlate and resolve issues across domains: natural-language querying, multi-step agent workflows, shared real-time visibility, and native Cisco plus third-party tool integration via Cloud Control Studio.

Cisco AI DefenseApplication

End-to-end AI security product that discovers an organisation's AI assets, red-teams models and applications for vulnerabilities, and enforces runtime guardrails against prompt injection and data leakage.

Cisco IQApplication

Agentic support intelligence delivered inside Cisco Support and Professional Services — 'the delivery vehicle for everything Cisco Support and Professional Services knows about your environment, made continuously available before you ask for it' — generally available as SaaS since April 2026 and included with existing support contracts.

Webex AI Workforce Engagement ManagementApplication

AI-native workforce engagement suite for contact centres that forecasts demand and optimises shifts, uses NLP and LLMs to evaluate 100 percent of human and AI agent interactions (AI Quality Management), and runs performance coaching and AI-led onboarding simulations.

AI agent

Webex AI AgentAI agent

Autonomous customer-service AI agent that handles inquiries conversationally across voice, SMS, email, chat and messaging apps and escalates to a human agent with context when it cannot resolve.

SentinelOne

Application

Prompt SecurityApplication

Discovers and governs employee and developer use of AI services, redacts sensitive data in prompts, controls autonomous agents and MCP servers, and defends custom AI applications against prompt injection, jailbreaks and data poisoning.

Singularity Cloud SecurityApplication

Cloud-native application protection platform that defends production workloads, cloud and AI infrastructure and the data stores feeding models, detecting and responding to threats autonomously across the cloud estate.

Singularity EndpointApplication

AI-powered endpoint security that combines endpoint protection, detection and response, and automated remediation and rollback in a single agent across Windows, macOS, Linux and cloud workloads.

Singularity IdentityApplication

Identity-security module of the Singularity Platform that protects against credential misuse and identity-based attacks.

Singularity MobileApplication

On-device mobile threat defense for iOS, Android and ChromeOS that stops phishing, malware and risky apps with an on-device model and needs no cloud connection to detect.

Wayfinder TDRApplication

Managed AI-assisted threat detection and response (MDR-style) service delivered by SentinelOne's global services team.

AI agent

Purple AIAI agent

An agentic AI security analyst embedded in the Singularity Platform that auto-triages alerts, runs investigations and threat hunts, and recommends or executes response actions over OCSF-normalized SentinelOne and third-party telemetry.

No counterpart

Cisco sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for SentinelOne yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Hardware

Cisco AI PODsHardware

Pre-validated modular AI infrastructure bundles that combine Cisco UCS servers, NVIDIA GPUs, Nexus 9000 400G/800G switching and management software into single orderable stacks for AI inferencing, training and fine-tuning.

Cisco AI PODs for CollaborationHardware

Turnkey on-premises AI appliance that runs real-time speech transcription for Cisco collaboration deployments locally, for customers with data-sovereignty requirements that rule out cloud AI services.

Cisco Nexus Hyperfabric AIHardware

Cloud-managed full-stack AI cluster sold as hardware plus software plus service, packaging Cisco 6000 and N9300 series switches on an 800GbE back-end fabric, UCS servers with NVIDIA H200 GPUs and BlueField DPUs, optional VAST storage and NVIDIA AI Enterprise under the Hyperfabric cloud controller.

Cisco Silicon OneHardware

Unified programmable networking-silicon architecture for AI, hyperscale, data-centre, service-provider and enterprise routing/switching, spanning five series (G/P/E/K/A) of chip families.

SentinelOne sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Cisco yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

Singularity AI SIEMPlatform

A security information and event management platform that ingests and normalizes cloud, identity, endpoint and third-party telemetry, correlates signals into incidents via Purple AI, and executes containment from the investigation console.

Singularity PlatformPlatform

Umbrella platform that runs SentinelOne's endpoint, cloud, identity and mobile protection on one agent and console with autonomous detection, response and rollback; the modules a buyer licenses are recorded separately.

Data service

Singularity AI Data PipelinesData service

A security telemetry pipeline service that filters low-value logs, normalizes heterogeneous sources into OCSF, and enriches events before they reach a SIEM, built on technology from SentinelOne's acquisition of Observo AI.