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UnderDefense

Also known as: UnderDefense MAXI, MAXI AISOC

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Entry priceMDR from $11 per device per month (most customers $10 to $30 per asset), annual contracts; Free plan with a 14-day trial.Full pricing detail

Agentic AI SOC (MAXI) with six AI Teammates that investigate alerts end to end and keep a knowledge map of the environment, plus human-led MDR; runs in the cloud or fully on-prem and air-gapped with bring-your-own models.

UnderDefense sells MAXI, an agentic AI SOC and compliance automation platform, alongside a human-led MDR service. In MAXI, six specialized AI Teammates work an investigation in turn: one classifies each alert against MITRE ATT&CK, one selects the relevant SIEM log indices, one gathers evidence through queries, one validates it, one synthesizes a verdict with a confidence level and a narrative for human review, and one routes the result into Microsoft Teams, Jira, Slack or email. The Teammates draw on 200+ agent skills and 400+ AI tools and keep a persistent knowledge map of the environment that grows with each investigation, and the company says every step is auditable.

Containment is automated within minutes of detection, analysts validate and tune, and a ChatOps capability asks affected employees to confirm suspicious activity. Since May 2026 MAXI can run entirely inside a customer's closed infrastructure, on any Kubernetes, data center or private cloud, including air-gapped, with bring-your-own models on Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock or self-hosted open-source models. UnderDefense lists 100+ integrations, connects to Splunk and Elastic, and achieved SOC 2 Type I in November 2024. MDR is sold on annual contracts starting at $11 per device per month.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://underdefense.com

Category

Security / SOC agent

Funding status

Independent cybersecurity company operating a managed-service model backed by 120 certified security engineers, serving organizations across five continents over 8+ years; recognized by Gartner Peer Insights, G2, and the Global Infosec Awards; maintains a stated zero-ransomware track record across all MDR customers over six years; specific external funding not disclosed in retrieved materials (services-led business)

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

agentic AI SOC with autonomous Tier 1/2 detection, investigation, and responsehuman-led MDR with expert-validated actions and ChatOps user verificationon-premise, sovereign, and air-gapped SOC deploymentcompliance automation and audit readiness (ISO 27001, SOC)incident response automation and containment across cloud, hybrid, on-prem

Target customers

enterprises with existing SIEM and SOC wanting an AI SOC ally, not an outsourcerorganizations needing on-prem, sovereign, or air-gapped SOCbusinesses of all sizes needing 24/7 MDR and complianceregulated organizations pursuing ISO 27001 or SOC readiness

Deployment options

cloudon-premise on any Kubernetes, data center or private cloudair-gapped and sovereign environments

Integrations

100+ out-of-the-box integrations; Splunk and Elastic SIEM queries; results delivered to Microsoft Teams, Jira, Slack or email; bring-your-own models on Azure AI Foundry, AWS Bedrock or self-hosted open-source. No public API or SDK is documented.

In practice

Your SOC runs on Splunk or Sentinel and analysts drown in Tier 1 alerts. UnderDefense MAXI's six AI Teammates classify each alert, query the SIEM, score the evidence and deliver a verdict with a narrative in about two minutes.

You operate in a regulated or classified environment where no data can leave your network. MAXI's on premises edition runs on your own Kubernetes or private cloud, even air gapped, with a model you choose.

A suspicious login fires at 2 a.m. MAXI asks the employee to confirm it in Slack or Teams and, if it is malicious, isolates the device with a ready to use playbook while the MDR team follows up.

Agentic Index coverage score

8.5 / 14 capabilities · 61%

Integrations & Tool Calling Full

More than 100 integrations come ready to use. Queries run against the customer's SIEM, Splunk or Elastic, containment is automated, and results go to Microsoft Teams, Jira or Slack, or by email, so UnderDefense acts in those outside systems itself. Named integrations also include Microsoft Sentinel, Google Chronicle, IBM QRadar, CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Palo Alto Networks, AWS, Azure, GCP and Okta. Containment isolates infected devices from the network with ready to use playbooks.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com and the company-news agentic AI SOC launchread 2026-10-05

Workflow Orchestration Full

Six specialized AI Teammates pass an investigation along, from MITRE classification and SIEM index selection, through querying and validating evidence, to writing the verdict and routing it to workflows. They draw on 200+ agent skills and 400+ AI tools. Evidence gathering turns the investigation plan in a workbook into precise SIEM queries, and validation scores each piece of evidence as benign, suspicious or malicious before the verdict is written.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/company-news agentic AI SOC launchread 2026-10-05

Knowledge Grounding & RAG Full

MAXI builds a persistent knowledge map of the customer's environment that gets smarter with every investigation, and RAG is named in the MAXI stack. The Teammates draw on that map. It starts with the SIEM, where one Teammate picks the most relevant log indices from environments with hundreds of them. Detection logic is kept as code, and UnderDefense says agents, workflows, MCP and RAG together raise performance by more than 70%.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/maxi-ai, underdefense.com and the company-news agentic AI SOC launchread 2026-10-05

Human Oversight & Guardrails Partial

Analysts validate and tune, verdicts come with a confidence level and a narrative meant for human review, and ChatOps asks affected employees through Slack or Teams to confirm suspicious activity such as a login attempt. Containment is automated within minutes through predefined playbooks, and no approval step comes before a response action goes through. UnderDefense says people are still needed to tune, verify and trust the system, while the AI handles 80% of Tier 1 and Tier 2 work.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/maxi-ai and underdefense.comread 2026-10-05

Security, Identity & Governance Partial

UnderDefense holds SOC 2 Type I, audited by Prescient Assurance. It now also holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification covering MAXI MDR and MAXI Compliance AI, and says its SOC 2 Type II examination is in its final stage. MAXI Compliance AI has a view only Auditor role under role based access control, but UnderDefense names no SSO, roles or user access controls for the MAXI AI SOC itself.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/company-news SOC 2 post and underdefense.com/blog ISO 27001 postread 2026-10-05

Observability & Auditability Full

Every step of the AI SOC layer is auditable, and each investigation ends in a verdict, a confidence level and a narrative for review or regulatory documentation, the agents' own record of their steps. Validation scores each piece of evidence as benign, suspicious or malicious, and the full investigation output goes to Microsoft Teams, Jira, Slack or email.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com and the company-news agentic AI SOC launchread 2026-10-05

Memory & State Persistence Not documented

Apart from the persistent knowledge map the Teammates draw on, the agents have no memory, and nothing says what they keep or for how long. That map is built from the customer's SIEM indices and improves with every investigation.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/company-news agentic AI SOC launchread 2026-10-05

Deployment & Data Residency Full

The on premises edition, sold as MAXI Agentic AI SOC On-Premise, runs entirely within the customer's own closed infrastructure, on any Kubernetes, data center or private cloud in any jurisdiction, including air gapped sites, with zero data leaving the perimeter. It is available now for enterprise customers worldwide. On prepared infrastructure, a full deployment finishes in under five minutes.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/company-news agentic AI SOC launchread 2026-10-05

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Partial

Six AI Teammates are described by role but not named, with 200+ agent skills and 400+ AI tools behind them. They work inside UnderDefense's own investigation pipeline, not as agents a customer picks up one at a time. The platform ships with more than 700 investigation workbooks mapped to MITRE ATT&CK, and containment uses ready to use playbooks. UnderDefense's site gives no figure of 1,500+ correlation rules. MAXI Compliance AI, a separate product, automates evidence collection and security questionnaires for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA and PCI DSS.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/company-news agentic AI SOC launch and underdefense.comread 2026-10-05

Triggers & Channel Coverage Full

A Teammate classifies each incoming alert against MITRE ATT&CK and investigates it around the clock, with automated containment within 5 minutes of detection, so each arriving alert starts the work. Classification works even when the detection rule carries no ATT&CK metadata, a full investigation takes about 2 minutes, and critical alerts carry a 20 minute response SLA.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/maxi-ai, underdefense.com and the company-news agentic AI SOC launchread 2026-10-05

Model Flexibility & Routing Full

Customers can bring their own AI model through Azure AI Foundry or AWS Bedrock, or run sovereign open source models hosted entirely inside their own perimeter, so the customer chooses the model. That choice comes with the on premises edition, which keeps all data inside the customer's network.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/company-news agentic AI SOC launchread 2026-10-05

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Not documented

UnderDefense publishes no public API, SDK or MCP server for building on MAXI. The MAXI page names MCP among its technologies without an endpoint or tools. Detection logic is managed as code, and results reach outside tools through the built in integrations.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/maxi-ai and underdefense.comread 2026-10-05

Testing, Debugging & Optimization Not documented

Customers get no way to test or evaluate the Teammates themselves. Analyst tuning is part of the service. UnderDefense reports investigations 153 times faster, 99% less noise and 99%+ MITRE ATT&CK coverage, and a 15 minute mean time to contain for its MDR service.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/maxi-ai and underdefense.comread 2026-10-05

Browser & Computer Use Not documented

The Teammates work through SIEM queries and integrations, and there is no browser or computer use. Endpoint containment, such as isolating an infected device, runs as an automated playbook action.

SourceUnderDefense, underdefense.com/maxi-ai and underdefense.comread 2026-10-05

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Product updates

·MCP / tool calling / APIVerified

UnderDefense launched MAXI MCP, a gateway that connects SIEM, EDR and SOC data to assistants and IDEs such as Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor, using OAuth 2.1 with read only access.

Bears on: MCP / tool calling / API

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·Deployment / data residencyVerified

UnderDefense launched an on-premise version of its MAXI Agentic AI SOC platform, designed specifically for closed, sovereign, and air-gapped environments. The system utilizes six specialized AI security agents with over 200 skills and 400 tools to autonomously investigate alerts without sending telemetry outside the customer's perimeter.

Bears on: Deployment / data residency

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·Security / enterpriseVerified

UnderDefense launched the Unified MAXI Workspace, a single platform combining Agentic AI SOC, Compliance AI, and CISO Intelligence. The platform is designed to serve complex environments, such as managing security across cross-border subsidiaries.

Bears on: Security / enterprise

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View all 3 UnderDefense updates →Tracked since Aug 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

MDR from $11 per device per month (most customers $10 to $30 per asset), annual contracts; Free plan with a 14-day trial.

Per device or asset per month, annual contract; the same rate across asset types.

Free tierTrial available

What is public

A starting price ($11 per device per month), the typical range ($10 to $30 per asset), annual contract terms and four plan names are public; exact plan prices are quoted.

Variable cost rationale

Per-device pricing ties cost to the number of protected assets; alert volume does not change the rate.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

Free plan (platform risks and integrations) with a 14-day trial.

Lowest paid plan

MDR from $11 per device per month (annual contract).

Key ambiguities

Plan-level prices beyond the $11 starting point are quoted; the Free plan is described with a 14-day trial.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-28

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