How we compare

What we are, next to
what we’re not.

Samyoga derives a live map of what an attacker can actually reach across identities, assets, and OT, then names the campaigns moving through it. That puts us next to five categories we are often mistaken for, starting with the one the whole site argues about. Here is the precise line for each, and what to keep when you add us.

The enterprise has no trustworthy map of itself. Agents are about to make that fatal.

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What the market paid to find out

You do not have to take our word for the problem.

In March 2026 ServiceNow closed a reported billion-dollar acquisition of Veza to put an access graph next to its CMDB. Two months later Cisco bought Astrix for agentless discovery of non-human identities. The two largest holders of enterprise IT records both concluded that the register alone could not answer who can reach what, and paid accordingly.

We think that settles whether the problem is real. It does not settle who should solve it for you, which is what the rest of this page is about.

The CMDB and the access graph (ServiceNow + Veza, Cisco + Astrix)

IT system of record and identity governance
What they do well

Enumerate what you own and hold ownership, lifecycle, and support routing. And they no longer stop at the register: ServiceNow closed its acquisition of Veza in March 2026 and now pairs the CMDB with an access graph answering who can take what action on what data, while Cisco acquired Astrix for agentless discovery of non-human identities. These are serious platforms with the best distribution in the industry, and we would rather say so than pretend the CMDB is still only a spreadsheet.

Where they stop

Both of those acquisitions answer an entitlement question: what a permission grants. Neither publicly claims attacker reachability joined across identity, asset, and OT, and neither is built for an air-gapped plant floor or a regulated on-prem estate. An entitlement graph tells you what an identity is allowed to reach. It does not tell you which of those routes has nothing watching it, and a permission that is correct on paper is still a path.

What Samyoga adds

A graph derived from the telemetry your estate already emits rather than from permission metadata alone, so reachability is computed across identity, asset, and OT, including the routes with no detection anywhere along them. Runs in the segments those platforms do not: fully air-gapped, on-prem, with India data residency.

Complement, not replace. Keep the CMDB as the register of what you bought, and your access graph for entitlement hygiene. Samyoga answers what can actually be reached, in the places those platforms do not run.

Vanta, Drata, and GRC platforms

Compliance automation
What they do well

Continuously collect evidence and map controls to a framework (SOC 2, ISO 27001, DPDP), so audit readiness stops being a quarterly fire drill.

Where they stop

They tell you whether you would pass an auditor, not what an attacker can reach. A passed audit and a breached network coexist comfortably: controls can be green while one over-privileged identity owns the domain.

What Samyoga adds

A live measure of attacker reachability across the exposure graph. Not "are the controls in place" but "what can actually be reached, from where, right now."

Complement, not replace. Keep Vanta for the audit. Add Samyoga for the exposure the audit does not measure.

Your SIEM (Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Elastic)

Log ingestion and detection rules
What they do well

Collect everything, run per-event detection rules, and retain. The system of record for security telemetry.

Where they stop

They count events. 50,000 alerts is not 50,000 problems, and a campaign is a structure spread across many events that a single-event rule cannot see. Most SOCs maintain thousands of rules and still miss the line through the dots.

What Samyoga adds

The decision surface above the lake. We read the data where it already lives, no re-ingest tax, and cluster events into named campaigns ranked by exposure.

Complement, not replace. If your SIEM works for you, keep it as the system of record. Samyoga is the system of intelligence on top of it.

Identity security (SailPoint, CyberArk, Wiz CIEM)

Governance, privileged access, cloud entitlements
What they do well

IGA runs provisioning and access reviews. PAM vaults privileged credentials. CIEM right-sizes cloud IAM. Each is strong inside its slice.

Where they stop

Each owns one slice. None join identity to asset to OT in a single graph, and none answer the question that matters after a foothold: what can this one compromised identity actually reach, across domains, right now.

What Samyoga adds

The cross-domain exposure graph and propagated blast radius. Risk flows across the seams between identity, asset, and OT, where most of it actually lives.

Complement, not replace. Keep your IGA and PAM for control. Samyoga adds the reachability layer none of them own.

Inline blast-radius (Zscaler, Symmetry)

Inline zero-trust and DSPM
What they do well

Enforce inline in the cloud and surface an operational blast-radius number in-console.

Where they stop

Cloud-only reach: an inline, SaaS-delivered control cannot see the air-gapped pharma floor or the on-prem OT segment. And an in-console number is an operational figure, not an artifact your board or your cyber-insurer can independently check.

What Samyoga adds

Samyoga runs where your data lives, including fully air-gapped, and turns exposure into something you can take to the board and the insurer, not just a dashboard tile.

Complement, not replace. Keep inline enforcement for the cloud. Samyoga covers the segments it cannot reach.

The line, on one page.

CategoryAnswersSamyoga answers
Compliance / GRCWould we pass the auditor?What can an attacker actually reach?
SIEMWhat events happened?Which campaigns are running through them?
Identity securityWho has access to what?What can one compromised identity reach across domains?
Inline blast-radiusA number, in the cloud console.Exposure you can verify, including air-gapped.

Samyoga sits above and beside your stack, not instead of it. The lake, the SIEM, the IGA, the inline controls all stay. We add the layer that reads across them — and every row is the same test: does it move your NIST CSF tier toward Adaptive, and can you prove it moved.

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Tell us what you already run. We will show you the exposure layer that sits on top, and reply within one business day.

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