Dropzone AI vs Qevlar AI (2026)

Dropzone has more than 90 integrations across SIEM, EDR, cloud, identity and email, read only by default. Response Actions run Python that the customer writes in an isolated container with stored secrets injected, to notify external systems, trigger remediation and apply policy actions.

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More than 50 API based integrations cover Microsoft Defender, Sentinel and Entra ID, CrowdStrike, Splunk, Elastic, AWS, Okta, Palo Alto, ServiceNow, Jira, Tines and others, with response actions such as blocking a suspicious IP or contacting the user.

They span SIEM, SOAR and ticketing, EDR and XDR, email, identity, threat intel, malware sandboxes, cloud and network tools, including Cortex XSIAM and XSOAR, Google SecOps, SentinelOne, Proofpoint, Mimecast, Zscaler and VirusTotal.

After an investigation, Qevlar moves to the next action, whether containment for malicious activity, tuning for false positives, or a policy or compliance follow up.

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Beyond the agent's own multi step investigation, customers configure what follows it. Response Automations fire on more than 50 triggers, among them an investigation completing with a given status, and run the customer's own code, and versioned custom strategies set priority rules and investigation questions.

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A graph based orchestrator, not an LLM, runs each investigation along structured, reproducible paths across the stack and follows the customer's procedures. It connects related activity into a single incident story, maps the full blast radius and moves containment forward. There is no branching, conditions, multiple agents or flow that customers build, and each investigation follows the product's own pipeline.

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Every alert the connected tools raise starts an investigation, hunts run on a schedule and on new CVEs and campaigns, and response automations fire on more than 50 system triggers.

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New alerts from across the security stack start investigations with no analyst initiating them, alerts can be pushed in through POST /alert, and hunts run continuously. A pushed alert is accepted at once with a PENDING status. Hunt queries are written and run across the SIEM and EDR automatically, and the platform works around the clock.

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Investigations query the customer's own tools live through the integrations, and analysts set custom strategies and define normal behavior. Context Memory serves as the persistent store, and no separate maintained index over the customer's documents is described.

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Investigations correlate telemetry and threat intelligence from the connected stack and draw on an organizational context of past investigations. For each MSSP client, the provider sets the enrichment and context sources Qevlar uses in every investigation, along with that client's business context. There is no index or graph that Qevlar maintains over the customer's own knowledge.

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Context Memory holds institutional facts across investigations. The agent writes to it when analysts change a conclusion, users add notes directly, and it can be reached through the API. Its scope and lifetime are not stated, and Dropzone only advises cleaning it up from time to time.

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When analysts override a verdict and add context, Qevlar applies it to future cases, and an organizational context keeps past investigations, so state carries across cases. That knowledge stays in the platform as shared intelligence when analysts move on, and each investigation sharpens the next. Qevlar does not say how widely that store applies or how long it is kept.

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Analysts approve or reopen each investigation in the product and from Slack (/dzapprove, /dzreopen), access to the customer's tools is read only by default, and response actions run only where the customer has configured them.

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Investigations follow the customer's procedures with analyst control, and analysts can override any verdict and add context. Analysts review alerts judged malicious, confirm the outcome and take the next steps Qevlar suggests. No approval step comes before a response action runs.

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Access is managed with roles and permissions, and SAML SSO works through Okta, Google Workspace or Microsoft Entra. Dropzone holds SOC 2 Type 2, following a Type 1 audit by Sensiba, and runs a trust center at trustcenter.dropzone.ai.

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The platform supports SSO integration, with role based access and mandatory MFA on internal and production access, and holds a SOC 2 Type II attestation for the Security criteria. Data is encrypted with AES-256 at rest and TLS 1.2 or higher in transit, with keys held in GCP KMS, and an outside firm runs a penetration test every year. Qevlar does not train its AI models on customer data, and it notifies customers within 72 hours of confirming a personal data breach.

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Each investigation produces an evidence backed report that shows the agent's reasoning, and every response action's output, errors and execution status are logged for auditing.

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Every verdict is transparent. Analysts see every step and every observable queried in the investigation, and audit logs are kept for up to 12 months. Full investigation reports can go straight to a SOAR or ticketing system or be read inside Qevlar, and actions can be traced for compliance.

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Each customer gets a dedicated tenant in its own AWS subnet, normally in us-west-2, with optional regional deployments and in-region EU deployment on request for GDPR. The Enterprise plan includes a dedicated single tenant environment.

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Primary hosting is Google Cloud in Belgium with LLM inference on Azure in Sweden, customer data retained in the EU, and a Bring Your Own Cloud deployment through which customers can choose another region. Bring Your Own Cloud runs on GCP or Azure, and Qevlar can run as SaaS or in a private cloud. Setup goes through APIs and usually takes a few hours, and the fastest so far took 10 minutes. Alert data is deleted 60 days after a contract ends unless agreed otherwise.

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Two agents ship, each doing its own job, the AI SOC Analyst for alert investigation and the AI Threat Hunter for hypothesis driven hunts, with prebuilt hunt packs such as APT29. An AI Threat Intel Analyst is planned.

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One platform covers investigation, threat hunting, detection engineering and vulnerability prioritization, and Qevlar sells these as parts of one product, not as separate prebuilt agents or templates.

The vulnerability agents, still in preview, blend CVE intelligence with live SOC signal into a contextual severity score, find each asset's owner from ITSM, identity provider and EDR records, and write and run threat hunts across the SIEM and EDR.

Qevlar packages the product for phishing, network, identity and cloud alerts, and MSSPs get a separate tenant for each client with its own investigations and settings.

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Dropzone runs on several named LLM services, including Anthropic, Azure OpenAI and Perplexity, and chooses among them itself. Customers cannot choose the model.

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Core reasoning runs in Qevlar's graph orchestrator, and LLMs handle narrow tasks such as enrichment and summaries on Azure inference in Sweden. Qevlar chose that single provider, and customers cannot choose a model. Inference stays under EU and EEA processing, and customer data is not used for training.

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Developers get a REST API under /app/api/v1 with Api-Key authorization that covers investigations, bulk feedback, user notes, context memory, custom strategies, response actions and system events, with an OpenAPI 3.0.3 spec and a Swagger UI in the product.

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A REST API at api.qevlar.com with Bearer token auth submits alerts (POST /alert), returns investigation status and results (GET /alert/{id}), and publishes its reference at api.qevlar.com/redoc. A new alert returns an alert ID with a PENDING status, a status check returns IN_PROGRESS, FAILURE or the full results, and rate limits follow the subscription plan.

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Analysts record feedback on investigations singly or in bulk and can reopen a conclusion, reviewing the agent's output after the fact. There is no evaluation harness, scored test set or gate before a strategy change goes live.

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Analyst overrides feed later cases. Customers have no evaluation harness, scored test cases, quality gate or optimization loop to run. Qevlar reports a 3 minute average alert investigation and up to 80% of tickets closed automatically, and says MSSPs using it report an average 300% return on investment.

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The agent queries the customer's tools through their APIs, and driving a browser, desktop or remote computer is not described.

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No agent drives a browser, desktop or remote computer. Investigations and actions run through API integrations, and results can go straight into the team's SOAR or ticketing tool.

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