NOMINATION HIGHLIGHTS

Axoflow began with a realization: modern security teams are drowning in data – and most of this data is useless. Security data pour in from every direction, but instead of fueling defense, they arrive fragmented, noisy, and incomplete. SOC teams then spend countless hours fixing data rather than leveraging it. And let’s not forget how expensive storing and computation could be – for data that will never be used! We founded Axoflow to rewrite that story.

Our vision was to create a true security data layer, a foundation for SOC teams where all security data becomes reliable, consistent, and ready for AI and detection. To achieve this, we started off by building a pipeline to act as a transport layer. But we designed in a way that our pipeline combines discovery, parsing, normalization, enrichment, and reduction into one cohesive system acting as a ‘translation layer’ as well, translating between the tens of schemas and data formats various vendors use. Unlike traditional tools that shift this complexity onto the SOC, Axoflow arrives “batteries-included.” It knows how to handle diverse log types from day one, and it delivers clean outputs to SIEMs, analytics, or other AI without endless configuration.

The second step was adding storage. Security data has unique requirements: it must be preserved cost-effectively, yet remain queryable and actionable. Our storage strategy balances performance with efficiency, enabling organizations to keep the right data accessible for compliance, investigations, and future analytics without incurring unsustainable costs.
The third component of the Security Data Layer is local compute, giving enterprise SOCs the ability to enrich their data with threat intel lookups, run their detection, ML, or AI models locally. At the edge, where data is produced and has all the necessary metadata and context, shifting detection left enables cost-effective data management.

Axoflow’s leadership brings an unmatched pedigree to this mission. Our founders have been creating security data pipelines for Fortune 500 companies for 25+ years. Created syslog-ng™, still the logging backbone of enterprises worldwide, and the Kubernetes Logging Operator for cloud-native environments.
In under three years, Axoflow has delivered measurable impact. Enterprises have cut ingestion costs by as much as 50-80%, accelerated detection by 70% and gotten free of security data babysitting. Customers from regulated industries such as healthcare and education already trust us to handle their most critical data. We have achieved ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II compliance, underscoring that our own practices meet the highest security standards.

Looking forward, we see the security data layer as the backbone of AI-driven defense. Whether enterprises decouple data management from SIEMs and analytics tools or prefer to centralize security data, we help organizations get rid of babysitting security data and put it to work instead.