HiddenLayer vs Splunk

HiddenLayer — Application · Private · $50M raised · 2 of 2 figures sourced  |  Splunk — Infrastructure · Acquired · 1 of 1 figure sourced

Relationship

Agent Harness Security and Splunk Enterprise 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; Splunk is acquired, with no independent scale.

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

3 of 4 capabilitiesShared product type

3 of 4 capabilities — Shares data security, evaluation and observability and threat detection and response.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and platform.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

FieldHiddenLayerSplunk
Size$50M raisednot disclosed
Employees——
Founded20222003 19 yrs earlier
StatusPrivateAcquired
CategoryApplicationInfrastructure
Stack layerApplication, PlatformApplication, Developer tool, Platform
HeadquartersLeander, USASan Jose, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 3

Data securityEvaluation and observabilityThreat detection and response

Not verified for Splunk · 1

Guardrails and safety

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

Not verified for HiddenLayer · 3

Agent orchestrationData analysisModel training

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

Products, side by side

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

HiddenLayer

Application

Agent Harness SecurityApplication

Protects the orchestration layer connecting AI coding agents to tools, memory, files and enterprise systems, detecting agentic-specific threats like memory poisoning and prompt injection with platform-aware controls for Claude Code, Cursor and GitHub Copilot.

HiddenLayer AI Attack SimulationApplication

Runs adversarial attacks against a customer's own models to find where they break before an attacker does.

HiddenLayer AI DiscoveryApplication

Inventories every model, agent and AI workflow running in an organisation, so security teams know what exists before defending it.

HiddenLayer AI Runtime SecurityApplication

Watches models in production and blocks attacks against them as they happen.

HiddenLayer AI Supply Chain SecurityApplication

Scans models an organisation builds, buys or borrows for tampering and malicious content before they reach production.

Platform

HiddenLayer AI Security PlatformPlatform

Security platform purpose-built for AI systems: discovers models and AI supply chains across an organisation, simulates attacks against them, and detects runtime abuse such as model theft, data poisoning and adversarial inputs.

Splunk

Application

Splunk Enterprise SecurityApplication

Integrated threat detection, investigation and response platform with agentic AI, SOAR, UEBA and SIEM unified into one SecOps experience.

Splunk IT Service IntelligenceApplication

AIOps and service-intelligence solution that uses AI-driven field discovery and AI-generated event correlation, summaries and root-cause guidance to connect IT events to business service health.

Splunk Observability CloudApplication

Observability platform where AI agents correlate signals across domains, propose remediation actions such as rollbacks or capacity changes, and provide dedicated agent/AI-system observability alongside infrastructure monitoring.

Platform

Splunk AI AssistantPlatform

Assistant inside Splunk Cloud Platform that turns plain-English questions into SPL, the query language Splunk searches machine data with, and explains existing searches back to an analyst.

No counterpart

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

Developer tool

Splunk AI ToolkitDeveloper tool

Platform for building, deploying and running agentic AI systems on Splunk data.