The Olympus platform

NIKSUN has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Standalone AI SOC Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment. Olympus gives AI agents what a fragmented stack never can — the complete record of the network, and the proof behind every answer.

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The thesis

Why evidence decides which AI you can trust

Every SOC is about to hand real decisions to AI agents. What separates an agent you can trust from one you can't is the data underneath. An agent working across a dozen disconnected tools sees fragments; give it the authority to act, and it turns blind spots into mistakes at machine speed.

Olympus captures and correlates network, endpoint, infrastructure, cloud and application activity in one data lake, the NIKSUN Knowledge Warehouse. Maya, NIKSUN's AI agent, reasons over that complete record, so every answer comes with the evidence behind it.

From the report

What the IDC MarketScape wrote

NIKSUN's governance model rests on grounding every AI conclusion in the underlying correlated data and making that evidence retrievable on demand, rather than asking analysts to take an agent's summary on faith.

Because Olympus captures and correlates network evidence independently of what endpoint agents report, it continues functioning as what NIKSUN calls an independent witness even when host-based tooling is absent, disabled, or bypassed.

That performance context is worth weighing on its own merits: using performance signals in triage can reduce alert volume and improve alert fidelity. For organizations weighing whether to keep NetOps and SecOps on separate tooling, this convergence is a genuine point of differentiation.

Source: IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Standalone AI SOC Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment. Read the excerpt →

The MarketScape

Positioned as a Leader.

IDC MarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor's position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.

SOURCE: “Worldwide Standalone AI SOC Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment”, September 2026, IDC # US54127026.

IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Standalone AI SOC Platforms 2026 Vendor Assessment. NIKSUN is positioned in the Leaders category.

Analyst view

◆Speed is now table stakes in security operations. The bottleneck has shifted from collecting data to correlating it, and an AI agent is only as trustworthy as the evidence it reasons over.

— Chris Kissel, Vice President, IDC Security & Trust

Buyers want every conclusion traceable to the raw evidence, guardrails they can inspect, and automated proof that an action actually reduced risk, not just a report that it ran. AI thrives on one correlated view, not silos: network, endpoint, infrastructure, cloud, and application activity, including evidence from the wire that still holds when an attacker blinds an endpoint agent. Platforms built on that foundation will define the agentic SOC. The rest will be measured against them.

How Olympus does it

Investigate. Act. Verify.

Investigate with context.

Maya root-causes attacks and outages across full packets, flows, logs, endpoint activity, metrics and traces at once. No one rebuilds the incident by hand.

Act with control.

Maya acts through Playbooks within the permissions and approvals you set, keeping people in the loop wherever their judgment is required.

Verify the result.

Every action is checked against live data before a case closes, and every conclusion links back to the raw evidence behind it.

Proof from the field

Trust, earned on real incidents.

An active breach. A two-person team.

Caught and contained.

“A regional healthcare provider running its entire IT and security function with two people had no dedicated security platform watching its patient portal beyond a firewall and an annual penetration test; once deployed, NIKSUN's Maya AI agent identified an active Log4Shell exploitation and data exfiltration in progress that the provider had no other means of detecting, then moved to contain it across host, network, and firewall before more records left the environment.”

An attack against a global enterprise.

Discovered and remediated.

“During the manufacturer's Cobalt Strike remediation, an engineer on the call asked directly how the team could trust what Maya was recommending rather than a confident-sounding guess; the analyst asked Maya for the raw evidence behind its conclusion, and the underlying packet and log data came back within seconds.”

Source: the IDC MarketScape excerpt. Read it →

Put it to the test

Bring us your hardest incident.

In a free, 30-minute session, a NIKSUN engineer will follow it live from detection to raw evidence, governed response and verified outcome. Then put Olympus on your own traffic.

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About IDC MarketScape

IDC MarketScape vendor assessment model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of technology and service suppliers in a given market. The research utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each supplier's position within a given market. IDC MarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of technology suppliers can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective suppliers.

About NIKSUN

NIKSUN, Inc. has protected critical infrastructure since 1997. Its AI-native Olympus platform unifies security, compliance, performance, and observability on one cross-correlated data lake, recording every packet, flow, log, metric, and trace so organizations, and the AI agents working for them, can Know the Unknown®. Headquartered in Princeton, N.J., NIKSUN serves businesses and government agencies in over 30 countries, with solutions that are Common Criteria certified and listed on the DoDIN APL. Learn more at niksun.com.

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