Arctic Wolf

Arctic Wolf was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Minnesota. The model is managed detection and response: the customer deploys sensors and agents, Arctic Wolf pulls the logs into its own SIEM-style platform, and a named team of analysts watches them. In effect, an outsourced SOC for mid-sized companies.

It has grown quickly, and in early 2025 bought the antivirus pioneer Cylance from BlackBerry for a fraction of what BlackBerry had paid. That says something about where the market has gone: the agent itself is a commodity, and what is actually being sold is the people reading the alerts.