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Palo Alto Networks Completes Acquisition of LightCyber
March 2017 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Palo Alto Networks® announced its acquisition of LightCyber®, a privately held cybersecurity company that has developed behavioral analytics technology. Under the terms of the agreement, Palo Alto Networks has acquired LightCyber for $105 million in cash.
LightCyber has been
leading the industry in the development of automated behavioral analytics
capabilities, using sophisticated machine learning to quickly and accurately identify attacks based on identifying behavioral anomalies
inside the network.
Palo Alto Networks will continue to offer the LightCyber products and
support existing customer implementations while it engineers the technology
into the Palo Alto Networks Next-Generation Security Platform by the end of
the calendar year. Bringing behavioral analytics to the platform will
enhance its automated threat prevention capabilities and the ability for
customer organizations to prevent cyber breaches throughout the entire
attack life cycle.
To address these challenges, reduce attacker dwell time, minimize damage
done and prevent breaches, the LightCyber technology employs highly
accurate and automated machine learning techniques to analyze user and
entity activity and then identifies and protects against anomalous
activities that are indicative of an active attack.
This behavioral attack detection capability complements the existing
protections delivered by the Palo Alto Networks platform to help security
team members focus on only the most meaningful alerts and improve the time
to breach response and prevention.
