Databricks Launches AI-Powered SIEM Lakewatch

Databricks, a leading data analytics company, unveiled Lakewatch on Tuesday, a new artificial intelligence-powered security information and event management (SIEM) platform designed to enhance threat detection and response for enterprises. The launch, announced at the RSA Conference 2026 in San Francisco, coincides with the disclosure of two acquisitions aimed at bolstering its cybersecurity capabilities.

Lakewatch integrates Databricks' core Data Intelligence Platform to unify security, IT, and business data in a single, governed environment. The product enables organizations to ingest and analyze vast volumes of multimodal data, including logs, network traffic, text, audio, and images, providing comprehensive visibility into potential threats. Powered by AI agents built with Anthropic's Claude language models, Lakewatch automates tasks such as alert triage, threat hunting, and investigation, allowing security teams to respond at machine speed to sophisticated attacks.

"Security is really a data problem, at the core of it," said Andrew Krioukov, general manager of Lakewatch and former CEO of acquired startup Antimatter. "Our strengths are data and AI. We see this as the...