Sophos acquires network threat detection startup Braintrace

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Sophos acquires network threat detection startup Braintrace
July 22, 2021
https://siliconangle.com/2021/07/22/sophos-acquires-network-threat-detection-startup-braintrace/

Sophos Group PLC today announced that it’s acquiring Braintrace Inc., a startup with technology for detecting malicious data traffic in companies’ on-premises networks and public cloud environments.

However, the main reason Sophos is buying Braintrace isn’t its services business but rather a network monitoring platform that the startup has developed to support the business’ work. The platform detects breaches by spotting malicious data traffic in companies’ environments that originates from malware.
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The startup’s algorithms can also detect malicious traffic that is traveling to another system in the corporate network rather than an external server. This helps detect attempts by hackers to use a compromised device to breach additional systems.

Braintrace’s platform, in contrast, can analyze traffic even without decrypting it, a capability that Sophos says will complement its existing feature set.
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Sophos plans to make Braintrace’s software available to its customers as a virtual machine so they may deploy it both on-premises and in the cloud. The offering is expected to launch sometime in the first half of 2022.

“The Braintrace technology will also serve as the launchpad to collect and forward third-party event data from firewalls, proxies, virtual private networks (VPNs), and other sources,” Levy detailed in a blog post. “These additional layers of visibility and event ingestion will significantly improve threat detection, threat hunting and response to suspicious activity.”
The Braintrace team, in turn, is joining Sophos’ Managed Threat Response and Rapid Response security services units as part of the deal. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
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Sophos: Sophos Acquires Braintrace

Further Enhancing Sophos’ Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem with Network Detection and Response (NDR) technology

Braintrace’s NDR technology will enhance and extend Sophos’ Managed Threat Response (MTR), Rapid Response, and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) solutions through integration into the Adaptive Cybersecurity Ecosystem, which underpins all Sophos products and services.
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