The article I read this week discusses a major purchase in the realm of cybersecurity that took place recently. The firm SentinelOne purchased the identity security vendor Attivo Networks for $616.5 million. The firm believes that the acquisition will increase its market in the realm of identity threat detection & response in their XDR tech by roughly $4 billion, calling the acquisition the missing link. XDR works by collecting & analyzing logs in response to potential threats, & the aim is to centralize security data & incident response. SentinelOne is one of several companies that have been moving into the realm of XDR recently, along with CrowdStrike & McAfee, and it isn’t their first purchase in XDR, either, as they acquired the data analytics platform Scalyr last year. The reason for this is because larger cybersecurity firms want to obtain “zero-trust enabling technologies” to integrate into their platforms. Attivo believes that combining their technology with SentinelOne’s XDR will bring real-time identity threat detection/response to the front lines of cyber defense.
Author – Jessica Handcastle
3/15/22
The article I read this week discusses a major purchase in the realm of cybersecurity that took place recently. The firm SentinelOne purchased the identity security vendor Attivo Networks for $616.5 million. The firm believes that the acquisition will increase its market in the realm of identity threat detection & response in their XDR tech by roughly $4 billion, calling the acquisition the missing link. XDR works by collecting & analyzing logs in response to potential threats, & the aim is to centralize security data & incident response. SentinelOne is one of several companies that have been moving into the realm of XDR recently, along with CrowdStrike & McAfee, and it isn’t their first purchase in XDR, either, as they acquired the data analytics platform Scalyr last year. The reason for this is because larger cybersecurity firms want to obtain “zero-trust enabling technologies” to integrate into their platforms. Attivo believes that combining their technology with SentinelOne’s XDR will bring real-time identity threat detection/response to the front lines of cyber defense.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/15/sentinelone_attivo_617m/