Latest Cybersecurity M&A: HelpSystems-Digital Guardian, Kaspersky-Brain4Net
HelpSystems and Kaspersky are gaining new capabilities in the deals.
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John Grancarich is HelpSystems‘ vice president of product and growth strategy. He said for HelpSystems partners it’s business as usual with one exception.
“Now, partners have more great products available from HelpSystems to help solve their customers’ problems,” he said. “Partners are always encouraged to leverage multiple HelpSystems solutions to provide their customers with a comprehensive suite of products. All our partners will have the opportunity to begin working with Digital Guardian products if it makes sense for their business.”
Grancarich said the crown jewel in the Digital Guardian acquisition is endpoint DLP.
“With the perimeter gone, you must be able to protect at the endpoint today,” he said. “We’re on a mission to help our customers and partners find best-in-class solutions for all their cybersecurity needs with fewer providers. Adding Digital Guardian’s cloud native DLP capability takes our data security offering to the next level.”
Digital Guardian’s partners will continue to be supported by the Digital Guardian team, Grancarich said.
“This will be seamless for them,” he said. “They’ll also benefit from being in a larger ecosystem where they can access expertise in other areas of cybersecurity, including threat intelligence and vulnerability management, to offer a more complete cybersecurity solution to their customers.”
With 30,000 customers, HelpSystems is in a position to collect “tons of great feedback” from organizations around the world, and at the top of the list is a need to work with fewer vendors for more of their cybersecurity needs, Grancarich said.
“That’s where we come in,” he said. “We make buy, build or partner decisions for every solution we want to offer, and when it makes strategic sense to do an acquisition to create a more complete cybersecurity solution from a single provider, we do it.”
Sergey Martsynkyan is Kaspersky‘s vice president of corporate product marketing. He said with the Brain4Net acquisition, Kaspersky’s partners are gaining an opportunity to offer their enterprise customers a single, integrated and transparent solution to protect complex distributed infrastructures.
“Since we will provide an open platform, partners can generate additional profits providing integration with other security solutions and providing professional services to their customers,” he said. “MSSPs will be able to provide cybersecurity services directly on the platform and integrate third-party solutions. Kaspersky’s new XDR platform and its components are cloud-native. That will help to reduce CAPEX because businesses won’t need to invest in infrastructure, and spend resources on upgrades and maintenance.”
By acquiring Brain4Net, Kaspersky aims to bring a completely new SASE offering to the market as a unified, transparent platform that will combine Kaspersky’s security solutions and technologies with Brain4Net’s network orchestration and control capabilities and expertise, Martsynkyan said.
“In particular, Kaspersky’s future SASE offering will eventually include a cloud access security broker (CASB), cloud secure web gateway (SWG), cloud workload protection platform (CWPP), cloud security posture management (CSPM), zero trust network access (ZTNA) and other services,” he said.
This acquisition allows Kaspersky to develop reliable detection and response capabilities in the “sought after cloud-first paradigm” by delivering its own solutions based on SD-WAN and NFV, and strengthening its solution portfolio with SASE capabilities, Martsynkyan said.
Partners can offer a cloud solution that ensures comprehensive security, generates additional profits and reduces costs, he said.
Max Kaminskiy is Brain4Net’s CEO and co-founder.
“The spread of SD-WAN technology needs a strong business scenario, that is why we are partnering with Kaspersky XDR,” he said. “Brain4Net’s choice of technologies confirms the high level of the company’s products and competencies. Together we will continue to make the world a safer and more comfortable place.”
This acquisition allows Kaspersky to develop reliable detection and response capabilities in the “sought after cloud-first paradigm” by delivering its own solutions based on SD-WAN and NFV, and strengthening its solution portfolio with SASE capabilities, Martsynkyan said.
Partners can offer a cloud solution that ensures comprehensive security, generates additional profits and reduces costs, he said.
Max Kaminskiy is Brain4Net’s CEO and co-founder.
“The spread of SD-WAN technology needs a strong business scenario, that is why we are partnering with Kaspersky XDR,” he said. “Brain4Net’s choice of technologies confirms the high level of the company’s products and competencies. Together we will continue to make the world a safer and more comfortable place.”
The latest cybersecurity M&A in the channel includes deals aimed at beefing up buyers’ capabilities. HelpSystems is acquiring Digital Guardian for improved data loss prevention (DLP), and Kaspersky is buying Brain4Net to boost its extended detection and response (XDR) and add secure access service edge (SASE).
Cybersecurity M&A has rebounded after grinding to a halt during most of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The companies didn’t disclose financial details of the acquisitions.
Digital Guardian’s solutions give customers visibility and protection of their data across many operating systems and applications. The company also provides a managed service that operates as an extension of their customers’ security teams to protect sensitive data from threats originating inside and outside the organization.
Digital Guardian’s team and solutions will fit into HelpSystems’ data security portfolio, and combine with security solutions such as GoAnywhere, Clearswift, Agari and Titus. In addition to extending HelpSystems’ DLP capability, this acquisition further improves the company’s ability to categorize or classify data and protect it across a wide set of applications and operating systems.
This marks the sixth acquisition by HelpSystems in 2021. The company acquired PhishLabs last week.
Brain4Net has been developing solutions and services to help enterprises and service providers adapt modern technologies such as SD-WAN and network functions virtualization (NFV) with existing network infrastructure. Brain4Net’s team is joining Kaspersky and will contribute to building Kaspersky’s network security strategy, as well as a SASE solution and evolved XDR offering.
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