Hilt
AI NativeKernel-level governance for data movement.
Published Oct 9, 2026
Hilt’s recent funding announcement establishes a recent commercial milestone, not leadership in market share. No comparable installed-base dataset was found. LinkedIn followers, directory rankings, and funding totals should not be used as adoption proxies. (industry news and company press releases)
| Starting price | Quote; annual per collector | Quote; no current public numeric starting price verified | Quote; no public numeric starting price verified | Published per-user add-on pricing; qualifying base license required |
| Typical fit | Evaluating cross-workload and endpoint movement detection | Lineage-led DLP and investigation | Human/AI behavioral insider-risk programs | Microsoft-centric data security and compliance |
| Key strength | Claimed kernel visibility plus customer-cloud deployment | Lineage, content intelligence, prevention, AI investigation | Behavioral context, privacy-oriented investigation, specialist services | Integrated security/compliance purchasing and ecosystem |
| Key weakness/tradeoff | Sparse independent evidence; SSO unfinished | Services and policy tuning can add implementation effort | Human-risk orientation may not match a workload-first requirement | Licensing prerequisites and feature-dependent consumption costs |
| Evidence maturity in this research | No public review footprint on major review sites; unnamed references | Public documentation and community anecdotes | Public platform and service documentation | Extensive official licensing and product documentation |
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Cyberhaven’s services documentation describes planning, pilot/tuning, and subsequent rollout over multiple weeks. That is useful context: first telemetry and mature security-program value are different milestones for every vendor. (vendor services documentation)