RADICL

RADICL was founded in 2021 by Chris Petersen (a founding engineer of security vendor LogRhythm), David Graff (a retired U.S. Air Force colonel and defense-industry executive), and Matt Petersen, specifically to serve a segment that most MDR providers don’t build for: small and mid-sized businesses in the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (DIB) that must meet CMMC and NIST 800-171 requirements but lack the budget for an enterprise-grade security operations team.

The platform bundles what would otherwise be four or five separate purchases into one virtual SOC (vSOC) service: managed detection and response built on CrowdStrike’s endpoint technology, identity monitoring for account takeover and business email compromise, managed attack surface scanning with verified remediation, managed security awareness training, and compliance-adherence tooling mapped directly to CMMC Level 2 and NIST 800-171 controls — the company states its platform directly addresses up to 30 of the 110 CMMC Level 2 practices. RADICL markets a seven-day path from initial consultation to live 24/7 monitoring, and layers AI-driven triage and automated containment on top of the underlying CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, or Microsoft Defender telemetry it ingests.

RADICL’s named customer base — more than 20 logos including Agile Space Industries, Firehawk Aerospace, Miltope, Trenton Systems, and Urban Sky — is concentrated in exactly the aerospace and defense-manufacturing SMB segment it targets, which is a meaningful and independently checkable signal given how narrow that niche is. The company has raised $46.2 million across three rounds, most recently a $31 million Series A led by Paladin Capital Group in February 2026 with participation from Access Venture Partners, Denver Ventures, and new investor Cervin Ventures — a substantial raise for a company this specialized, reflecting investor confidence in the DIB compliance deadline wave driving demand.

The tradeoff for CISOs and compliance leads evaluating RADICL is that its core detection engine is licensed technology (CrowdStrike, SentinelOne, Microsoft Defender) rather than a proprietary detection stack; the company’s value-add is the compliance-mapped packaging, the DIB-specific operating model, and the speed of deployment, not a novel detection algorithm.