Securonix Inc. today announced that it has acquired fellow cybersecurity startup ThreatQuotient Inc. to enhance its breach prevention capabilities.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Addison, Texas-based Securonix is backed by more than $1 billion in funding. It raised most of that capital through a 2022 growth investment provided by Vista Equity Partners. The company sells a suite of cybersecurity products that uses artificial intelligence to automate manual work for administrators.

Its first product, EON, uses AI agents to search for malicious activity in corporate networks. One of the built-in agents can write detections, scripts that automatically spot malware. Another uses large language models to filter false positives. After detecting malicious activity, EON can respond by taking steps such as isolating the compromised server from the rest of the network.

Securonix also offers a SIEM, or security information and event management, platform. It can analyze cybersecurity logs from multiple sources in one place to find malicious activity. The data is stored for up to a year, which enables administrators to correlate newly detected hacker activity with cyberattacks that occurred months earlier.

The other products each focus on a different set of cybersecurity use cases. One of them, ATS, uses threat intelligence to help companies identify risks to their infrastructure. The acquisition of ThreatQuotient will enhance Securonix’s capabilities in that area.   

Founded in 2013, ThreatQuotient has developed a platform that helps companies analyze threat intelligence more efficiently. Organizations often source such data from not one but multiple providers. According to ThreatQuotient, its platform can combine data points from different threat intelligence feeds into a single alert to provide more complete information about hacker activity.

The company’s software also automates several related tasks. Enterprises can configure it to prioritize threat intelligence signals automatically based on relevance and urgency. A bank, for example, could prioritize information about cyberattacks that target the financial sector. ThreatQuotient can optionally sync the collected data to a company’s other cybersecurity tools.

The software maker raised about $170 million in funding prior to the acquisition. This past April, ThreatQuotient disclosed that its installed base had more than doubled in the past year thanks to strong demand. It also reached the cash flow break-even point.

“Security teams are drowning in noise and struggling to keep up with evolving threats,” said Securonix Chief Executive Officer Kash Shaikh. “This acquisition brings together Securonix’s Agentic AI-driven Platform with ThreatQuotient’s deep threat intelligence to deliver clarity, speed, and automated workflows to our customers, reducing false positives by up to 90%.”

Securonix will use ThreatQuotient’s technology to enhance the cybersecurity alerts that its platform generates for customers. Additionally, the company expects to reduce false positives. It plans to offer ThreatQuotient both on a standalone basis and as part of a broader cybersecurity toolkit.  

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