Sophos aims to strengthen its cybersecurity portfolio by acquiring Secureworks for $859 million, said CEOs Joe Levy and Wendy Thomas. The deal focuses on bringing together Secureworks' Taegis XDR platform and Sophos' existing MDR services to provide better cyber defense for businesses of all sizes.
Sophos is acquiring Secureworks in a deal valued at $859 million, aiming to integrate its managed security services with Secureworks' Taegis XDR platform. This merger is expected to deliver advanced detection and response capabilities, and enhance global cybersecurity for businesses of all sizes.
As cloud computing, DevOps and automation continue to evolve, the lines between IT functions are fading, making security integral to these processes. Hiren Dave, CIO and CISO at Essen Health Care, shares how combining the roles of CIO and CISO improves risk management and communication.
Majority owner Dell is exploring a possible sale of Atlanta-based cybersecurity services vendor Secureworks, tapping investment bankers at Morgan Stanley and Piper Sandler to gauge takeover interest from potential acquirers, which include private equity firms, Reuters reported Thursday.
Bryan Palma, CEO of Trellix, shares insights into the company's involvement in cybercrime takedowns and the integration of generative AI into the company's XDR platform. He discusses how Trellix Wise streamlines SOC processes and the company's focus on ransomware detection and data security.
CEO Nick Schneider explains Arctic Wolf's success with MDR and ITDR services, highlighting the company's unique security operations cloud and concierge delivery model. He also discusses Arctic Wolf's rapid expansion across Europe, Asia and Australia/New Zealand.
At the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit, Thomas Lintemuth, vice president analyst at Gartner, discussed how network security tooling has evolved, blending technologies such as firewall, SSE, NDR and SASE. He covered VPNs, microsegmentation and the deployment of policy enforcement points.
The XDR market has matured significantly, Forrester found. Leading vendors such as Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks and CrowdStrike are supporting diverse telemetry sources and developing strategies to replace traditional SIEM tools. These advancements give better detection quality and cost management.
Private equity giant Thoma Bravo agreed to buy Darktrace for $5.32 billion just 19 months after deal talks between the two sides fell apart. The take-private deal would accelerate Darktrace's organic growth and allow it to pursue acquisitions and leverage Thoma Bravo's operational best practices.
In this episode of the "Cybersecurity Insights" podcast, Uptycs CEO Ganesh Pai discusses unifying XDR and CNAPP to improve visibility and explains the coming shift from behavioral detection to outlier or anomaly detection, which uses sophisticated ML and AI.
Security practitioners are skeptical of Cisco's proposed $28 billion Splunk purchase given the networking giant's track record around funding and investing in previous acquisition targets. Forrester's Allie Mellen expects some customers to try out other SIEM tools given Cisco's heritage in hardware.
Cisco's proposed $28 billion buy of Splunk allows businesses to move from threat detection and response to threat prediction and prevention by combining XDR and SIEM. The deal brings together Cisco's newly released XDR platform with Splunk's long-standing SIEM technology.
It turns out SIEM isn't on life support after all. Cisco is providing 28 billion reasons to believe enterprises aren't scrapping the security operations center staple anytime soon, even though rivals with other types of security technology have attempted to write SIEM's obituary for years.
WatchGuard purchased a Massachusetts company to extend network detection and response capabilities traditionally reserved for high-end enterprises to the midmarket through MSPs. The deal gives WatchGuard clients more visibility into east-west network traffic and activity taking place on the cloud.
Venture-backed cloud security firm Wiz swallowing up publicly traded endpoint security firm SentinelOne would be one of the most unorthodox and surprising acquisitions the cybersecurity industry has ever seen. But despite the major financial hurdles, the potential technology synergies are obvious.
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