Exaforce Achieves AWS Security Competency and AWS AI Competency, Validating Its Agentic SOC Across the Disciplines That Define It
Dual designation spans Identity and Access Management, Threat Detection and Response, Generative AI Applications, and Agentic AI Applications, the precise intersection where Exaforce operates.
SAN JOSE — June 9, 2026 — Exaforce, the pioneer in agentic security operations, today announced it has achieved both the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Competency and the AWS AI Competency. The recognition spans four validated categories: Identity and Access Management and Threat Detection and Response under the AWS Security Competency, and Generative AI Applications and Agentic AI Applications under the AWS AI Competency.
Exaforce earning both designations, across four categories that map directly to its platform, is independent validation of the company’s core thesis that the modern SOC has to be agentic, and agentic security has to cover identity end to end. That is what Exaforce was built to do, with customers seeing measurable improvements such as 90% reduction in false positives and <30 minutes average time from alert to response.
“These two competencies are part of the same story,” said Ariful Huq, Co-Founder and Head of Product of Exaforce. “An Agentic SOC only works when the AI agents are good enough to do real security work and when the security coverage is deep enough to matter. AWS validating us across both is what we have been telling customers since day one. The knowledge graph ingests from tools like Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, and across the AWS telemetry stack, chaining identity to activity to alert. The Exabots detect, triage, investigate, and respond at machine speed across the surfaces attackers actually target.”
Why both competencies matter together
The AWS Security Competency designation in Threat Detection and Response validates Exaforce as a SIEM replacement and full SOC platform, built on a real-time knowledge graph that ingests, normalizes, and chains telemetry at ingest from tools like Amazon GuardDuty, AWS CloudTrail, and across the AWS ecosystem without requiring a separate data pipeline. The Identity and Access Management category validates Exaforce’s identity security coverage, in which identities, permissions, and entitlements are first-class objects within the same graph rather than a separate product bolted on.
The AWS AI Competency recognition validates the other half. Exaforce’s specialized AI agents, called Exabots, are purpose-built for the SOC lifecycle across detect, triage, investigate, and respond. Earning recognition in Agentic AI Applications confirms that these agents go beyond LLM wrappers to production-grade autonomous systems. The Generative AI Applications category covers the Multi-Model AI reasoning that drives the platform and agents.
AWS partners pursuing the AI Competency are validated against rigorous technical and operational requirements, including responsible AI development, governance, and monitoring. AWS Security Competency partners are evaluated annually by AWS security experts on the tools used and operational processes against specific cloud security challenges. Customers working with AI Competency Partners are implementing production solutions 25 percent faster, according to AWS.
Coming off a $125M Series B
The competency announcements come one day after Exaforce announced a $125 million Series B financing round, one of the largest ever in the emerging AI SOC space. The round included participation from HarbourVest, Peak XV, Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, Seligman Ventures, and AICONIC, and brought total funding to $200 million. The capital is being deployed to scale the platform, deepen real-time reasoning and multi-model AI capabilities, and expand the company’s global footprint, including in Japan and Europe.
“The Series B funded the next chapter. These competencies confirm the foundation is sound,” Huq added. “AWS does not hand these out. They validate that defenders can actually rely on what we have built, both as a security platform and as an AI platform.”
About the AWS Competency Program
AWS established the AWS Competency Program to help customers identify AWS Partners with deep industry experience and expertise. The AWS Security Competency identifies AWS Partner solutions that have proven technical proficiency and customer success across foundational cybersecurity categories. The AWS AI Competency, expanded in November 2025 to include three new Agentic AI categories, recognizes partners with proven expertise in deploying production-grade autonomous AI systems built on AWS services, including Amazon Bedrock and Amazon SageMaker AI.
About Exaforce
Exaforce is the pioneer in agentic security operations. Its AI-native platform combines a real-time security knowledge graph with AI agents called Exabots, supported by an MDR service that helps teams detect, triage, investigate, and respond to threats at machine speed. Backed by $200 million in total funding from HarbourVest, Peak XV, Mayfield, Khosla Ventures, Seligman Ventures, and AICONIC, Exaforce serves security teams at enterprises across healthcare, technology, financial services, and other high-target industries. The company is headquartered in the Bay Area with a growing global presence. Learn more at www.exaforce.com.
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