Mate Security vs Splunk SOAR (Cisco)

Mate Security describes itself as an agentic security operations platform. Splunk SOAR (Cisco) is a Cisco-owned SOAR product sold alone or with Splunk Enterprise Security. They split on approval, rollback and blast radius, where the rubric reads Mate Security as partial and Splunk SOAR (Cisco) as not documented on the pages read on 2026-11-03.

4.87to5.79Totals on the published rubric: Mate Security 11th, Splunk SOAR (Cisco) 6th of 14. Splunk SOAR (Cisco) leads by 0.92.

0.92points apart

The difference that decides it

On approval, rollback and blast radius, Mate Security names three modes, Recommend only, Supervised and Auto-run, and scores each action on confidence, precision and reversibility (vendor claim), with no per-action documentation or rollback mechanics. Splunk SOAR (Cisco) states no approval, rollback or blast-radius control on the page read. mate.security, read 2026-11-03

8criteria

Rubric side by side

Each criterion is scored 0 to 10 from the vendor's own pages; points are weight times score divided by 100.
Criterion	Weight	Mate Security	Splunk SOAR (Cisco)	Gap, first minus second
Native containment coverage (0 and 19 of 25 actions)	25	2.0	7.7	-5.7
Published time-to-contain evidence with method	15	4.0	5.5	-1.5
Approval, rollback and blast-radius controls documented	15	7.6	3.0	+4.6
Explanation and audit trail	15	7.0	4.0	+3.0
Integration depth documented	10	5.5	8.5	-3.0
Detection-to-response coupling	8	5.0	6.0	-1.0
Pricing transparency	6	5.5	4.5	+1.0
Deployment and data handling	6	5.0	6.5	-1.5
Total	100	4.87	5.79	0.92

Full reasons and sources for every score are on the profiles of Mate Security and Splunk SOAR (Cisco).

7.6 : 3.0approval score each

Approval and rollback controls

Mate Security. Platform page names Recommend only, Supervised ("Risky changes still ask") and Auto-run, scores each action on confidence, precision and reversibility, and returns a category to Supervised on drift; there is no per-action doc, rollback mechanics or scope term on the pages read. mate.security, read 2026-11-03

Splunk SOAR (Cisco). No approval, rollback or blast-radius control is stated on the page read. splunk.com, read 2026-11-03

0 : 19actions of 25

Containment coverage by domain

Domain	Mate Security	Splunk SOAR (Cisco)
EDR	0 of 6	6 of 6
Identity	0 of 5	4 of 5
Email	0 of 5	3 of 5
Cloud	0 of 5	3 of 5
Network	0 of 4	3 of 4
All five	0 of 25	19 of 25

Published time to contain: Mate Security, no published figure; Splunk SOAR (Cisco), no published figure.

5buyer types

Verdict by buyer type

regulated financial: Mate Security has the stronger published case on approval and audit: it names three autonomy modes and Decision Traces, both vendor claims without export detail. Splunk SOAR (Cisco) states neither approval controls nor an audit trail on the pages read.
lean team: Neither is easier to size up before a call. Mate Security publishes no price and says it starts in shadow mode on real alerts; Splunk SOAR (Cisco) offers a free trial with no credit card but no price list.
MSSP: Only Mate Security states anything for MSSPs: it quotes Water-IT, an MSSP, on serving any stack from one platform (vendor claim). Splunk SOAR (Cisco) states no MSSP terms on the pages read.
Microsoft estate: Only Mate Security says anything specific: it names Microsoft Defender among its tool examples, without a connector list. Splunk SOAR (Cisco) states no Microsoft-specific detail on the pages read.
CrowdStrike estate: Only Mate Security says anything specific: it names CrowdStrike among its tool examples and was selected for the 2026 CrowdStrike, AWS and NVIDIA startup accelerator (announced 2026-01-05). Splunk SOAR (Cisco) states no CrowdStrike-specific detail on the pages read.

When to pick each

Pick Mate Security when approval controls must be readable in the docs, because it names three modes, Recommend only, Supervised and Auto-run, and scores each action on confidence, precision and reversibility (vendor claim), with no per-action documentation or rollback mechanics.

Pick Splunk SOAR (Cisco) when connector count and breadth matter most, because it states 2,800+ automated actions and 300+ third-party tools, a tool count and an action count.

Read dates are on each source link. See also Mate Security alternatives and Splunk SOAR (Cisco) alternatives, or the buyer-type rankings.