Comparison guide
Radiant Security Alternatives in 2026: Torq vs. Dropzone AI vs. D3 Morpheus
There are three realistic routes from here, and they lead to very different SOCs. This page compares them.
On August 19, 2026, Cribl acquired the technology assets behind Radiant Security’s AI SOC product and is adapting them to run on its telemetry platform. If Radiant was your platform or your frontrunner, your shortlist is open again.
Full background: Cribl Just Acquired Radiant Security’s AI SOC Technology.
Every Torq, Dropzone AI, and Radiant Security claim on this page is framed against those vendors’ public positioning or Cribl’s August 19, 2026 announcement, and is labeled as such in the tables below. The Radiant Security column is dated as of August 19, 2026 and will be updated whenever Cribl or Radiant publishes customer-facing detail. We hold D3 Morpheus to the same disclosure standard we apply to every other vendor on this page.
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Three Routes, Three Different SOCs
Every team rebuilding an AI SOC shortlist this quarter is really choosing between three approaches, whatever the vendor logos on the slide:
Hyperautomation platforms
(Torq is the best-known example) give your team a powerful no-code engine and, increasingly, AI agents that operate it. Your engineers build the workflows; the platform executes them at scale.
AI triage agents
(Dropzone AI is the best-known example) ship a pre-trained AI analyst that investigates Tier 1 alerts and hands findings to the rest of your stack. Fast to deploy, focused by design.
AI SOC platforms
(this is where Radiant played, and where D3 Morpheus lives) run the investigation itself, end to end, with orchestration and case management on the same engine.
Radiant customers bought the third route. The question this page answers is what each of the other routes actually trades away, and what staying on the platform route looks like now.
Route 01
Route 1: The Hyperautomation Route. Radiant vs. Torq vs. Morpheus
Torq publicly positions HyperSOC and its Socrates agents as an agentic layer over a no-code automation engine. It is a genuinely strong product for teams with automation engineering capacity, and its reach extends beyond the SOC into IT workflows.
The trade to understand: a Radiant buyer purchased investigation that worked on day one. On the hyperautomation route, investigation depth follows the logic your team encodes. Coverage grows runbook by runbook, and when a vendor changes an API, keeping those workflows healthy is your team’s job. That is a fundamentally different resourcing model from the one Radiant customers signed up for.
| Capability | Radiant Security (as of Aug 19, 2026) | Torq (per public positioning) | D3 Morpheus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category | AI SOC platform. Per Cribl’s Aug 19 announcement, technology assets acquired; being adapted to run as an application on Cribl’s telemetry platform. | Hyperautomation platform with an agentic layer (Socrates, HyperSOC per their public positioning). | AI SOC platform with native SOAR and case management. |
| Investigation model | Autonomous triage across alert types per their public product positioning. | AI agents execute and customize runbooks; investigation depth follows the logic your team encodes in workflows. | Attack Path Discovery investigates every alert across the environment: north-south, east-west, MITRE-mapped, at L2+ depth. |
| Who builds the logic | Vendor-trained triage, per their public positioning. | Your team builds and maintains runbooks in a no-code editor; coverage grows workflow by workflow. | Morpheus generates the investigation per alert from live context. Deterministic playbooks available when you want them, generated from your SOPs. |
| SOAR + case management | Publicly positioned around triage and one-click response; full SOAR and case management were separate considerations for most buyers. | Strong orchestration heritage; case handling via its own workflow constructs. | Both built in, on the same engine and audit trail as the AI investigation. |
| Integration maintenance | 120+ integrations per their public materials; maintenance model post-acquisition unstated. | Broad connector library; drift repair when vendor APIs change is handled through workflow maintenance, per public materials. | 800+ self-healing integrations: drift detected and corrective code generated autonomously. |
| Deployment | Cloud-native per public positioning. | Cloud-first per public positioning. | Cloud, on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped, multi-tenant MSSP. |
| Roadmap ownership | Per the Aug 19 announcement, the technology’s roadmap now runs through Cribl’s telemetry platform; standalone future not publicly stated. | Independent vendor; hyperautomation roadmap spans security and IT use cases. | D3 Security. The roadmap serves security operations and nothing else. |
Route 02
Route 2: The AI Triage Agent Route. Radiant vs. Dropzone AI vs. Morpheus
Dropzone AI publicly positions itself as a pre-trained AI SOC analyst. It deploys fast, requires zero playbook engineering, and produces evidence-backed Tier 1 investigation reports. As an augmentation layer on top of a stack you intend to keep, it is a credible product with published pricing.
The trade to understand: an agent investigates and then hands off. Orchestration, response execution, and case management stay wherever they live today, which for many Radiant evaluators was exactly the fragmentation they were trying to consolidate. Usage-based pricing also means your bill scales with your alert volume, which puts a quiet tax on connecting everything.
| Capability | Radiant Security (as of Aug 19, 2026) | Dropzone AI (per public positioning) | D3 Morpheus |
|---|---|---|---|
| Category | AI SOC platform. Per Cribl’s Aug 19 announcement, technology assets acquired; being adapted to run as an application on Cribl’s telemetry platform. | Pre-trained AI SOC analyst focused on Tier 1 alert investigation, per their public positioning. | AI SOC platform with native SOAR and case management. |
| Investigation model | Autonomous triage across alert types per their public product positioning. | Autonomous Tier 1 investigations with evidence-backed reports; positioned as augmentation alongside your existing stack. | L1 and L2 investigation end to end via Attack Path Discovery. You control what it is allowed to do at each autonomy mode. |
| What happens after triage | One-click response plans per their public positioning. | Findings hand off to your existing SOAR, ticketing, and case tools for orchestration and response. | Investigation flows into built-in SOAR and case management: response, chain of custody, and audit trail on one platform. |
| Integration maintenance | 120+ integrations per their public materials; maintenance model post-acquisition unstated. | API-based connections to your detection stack; connector repair follows standard vendor update cycles per public materials. | 800+ self-healing integrations: drift detected and corrective code generated autonomously. |
| Deployment | Cloud-native per public positioning. | Cloud-native per public positioning. | Cloud, on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped, multi-tenant MSSP. |
| Pricing model | Volume-based per their public positioning. | Published usage-based tiers, per their public pricing. | Annual subscription sized to your alert volume envelope; D3 absorbs all AI token costs. Zero per-investigation fees. |
| Roadmap ownership | Per the Aug 19 announcement, the technology’s roadmap now runs through Cribl’s telemetry platform; standalone future not publicly stated. | Independent vendor focused on the AI analyst category. | D3 Security. The roadmap serves security operations and nothing else. |
Route 03
Route 3: Staying on the Platform Route With Morpheus
D3 Morpheus is an AI SOC platform with SOAR and case management built in. On every alert, Attack Path Discovery investigates the environment around the alert: north-south ingress, east-west lateral movement, MITRE ATT&CK alignment on every finding, at L2+ depth. In production, Morpheus investigates up to 95% of alerts in under 2 minutes at L2+ depth.
You control the autonomy. Four modes run on one engine with one audit trail format: Deterministic, AI-Assisted, AI-Led, and Autonomous. Start supervised, expand as trust builds, and keep the same evidence chain throughout. Morpheus runs L1 and L2 investigation end to end, and you decide what it is allowed to do at every step.
It runs on the stack you already own. 800+ self-healing integrations cover every major SIEM, EDR, identity, email, cloud, and ticketing platform: Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Datadog, Exabeam, CrowdStrike, Elastic, Google SecOps, and the rest. Self-healing means Morpheus detects vendor API drift and generates corrective code autonomously. Your data layer stays exactly where it is, and Morpheus deploys wherever you need it: cloud, on-premises, hybrid, air-gapped, or multi-tenant for MSSPs.
Commercially, Morpheus is an annual subscription sized to your alert volume envelope, and D3 absorbs all AI token costs. There are no per-investigation fees, so connecting your full alert stream is the intended use of the platform, not a billing event.
Scorecard
How to Run This Evaluation
Put roadmap ownership on the scorecard.
After this month, who owns each vendor’s roadmap, and what business does that roadmap serve, deserves the same weight as any feature row.
Demand a proof of concept on your own alerts.
Every route above demos well. Investigation quality only shows on your real traffic, against your real stack.
Price the whole journey.
An agent plus your existing SOAR plus case management plus workflow maintenance is a stack price. Compare stack price to platform price, at your actual alert volume.
Test what happens when an API changes.
Ask each vendor to walk through a real connector break from the last quarter and show who fixed it, and how fast.
faqs
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best Radiant Security alternative?
D3 Morpheus is the most direct replacement for a Radiant deployment: an AI SOC platform with native SOAR and case management, 800+ self-healing integrations, and deployment from cloud to air-gapped. It continues the route Radiant customers already bought, autonomous investigation on one platform. The other two routes suit different teams. If you have automation engineers and want workflow reach beyond the SOC, hyperautomation platforms like Torq fit that model. If you want fast Tier 1 augmentation on a stack you plan to keep, AI triage agents like Dropzone AI fit that model.
Is Torq a Radiant Security alternative?
Torq publicly positions HyperSOC as agentic security automation, so it appears on many of the same shortlists. The model differs: Torq’s agents operate workflows your team builds and maintains, while Radiant sold vendor-delivered autonomous triage. Teams choosing Torq should budget for workflow engineering as an ongoing function.
Is Dropzone AI a Radiant Security alternative?
For the Tier 1 investigation slice, yes. Dropzone publicly positions a pre-trained AI analyst that investigates alerts and reports findings. Orchestration, response, and case management remain with your existing tools, so teams consolidating their SOC stack should price and plan for those layers separately.
What is the difference between a hyperautomation platform and an AI SOC platform?
A hyperautomation platform executes workflows your team designs, with AI making that authoring and operation easier. An AI SOC platform performs the investigation itself, generating the investigative path per alert from live context, with orchestration and case management on the same engine. The first scales your engineers. The second scales your investigations.
Which Radiant Security alternative works with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, or Datadog?
D3 Morpheus is multi-SIEM by design and runs on top of Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Datadog, Exabeam, Elastic, Google SecOps, and others, including several at once, through 800+ self-healing integrations. It investigates against your data where it lives, and your data layer stays put.
Do I have to adopt a telemetry pipeline to use an AI SOC platform?
With Morpheus, no. Per Cribl’s August 19, 2026 announcement, Radiant’s technology is being adapted to run as an application on Cribl’s telemetry platform, and whether standalone availability continues has not been publicly stated. Morpheus connects to your existing stack over API from day one.
D3 Security is not affiliated with Cribl, Radiant Security, Torq, Dropzone AI, or the other third-party vendors named above. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Statements about the Cribl and Radiant Security transaction are drawn from Cribl’s August 19, 2026 announcement; characterizations of Torq, Dropzone AI, and Radiant Security products reflect those vendors’ public positioning and publicly available information as of August 19, 2026. Vendor-stated figures are the vendor’s claims, not independent audits.
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