Cybersecurity heavyweight Securonix announced a deal to acquire ThreatQuotient to boost plans to build an all-in-one security operations stack. The financial terms of the transaction were not released, but the acquisition was officially announced to the public on Wednesday, June 11th. ThreatQuotient is a late-stage Virginia start-up that is behind the ThreatQ threat-intelligence platform, which is a very popular product. The company had previously raised $90 million across eight rounds since it was founded back in the year of 2013 by its founders. This combination will create a comprehensive, modular, and fully integrated AI-driven platform for threat detection, investigation, and response for customers.
ThreatQuotient’s technology enables security teams to pull dozens of commercial, open-source and industry feeds into one single centralized place. It can also enrich the data with local telemetry and push the resulting intelligence back out to firewalls and other security tools. Securonix is betting that the external context from ThreatQuotient is a natural fit alongside its existing security technologies. These technologies analyze internal signals that enterprises already collect in their SIEM and also their user-behavior analytics pipelines for security. Securonix spent the past few years leaning hard into automation and various large language model techniques to improve its own platform. This was backed by a billion-dollar growth funding round.
Early benchmarks that have been cited by the two companies promise up to a seventy percent cut in mean time to respond.
They also promise as much as a ninety percent drop in false positives for security alerts, which is a significant improvement. Securonix has also said that ThreatQuotient will continue to be sold as a completely standalone option for its existing customers. This is for customers that want a dedicated TIP, but the main plan is to fold its data models into Securonix’s EON platform. This integration will provide a unified view of both internal and external threats, which will greatly enhance security operations.
This move will create a powerful and comprehensive security solution.
This acquisition accelerates the modernization of security operations by uniting internal and also external threat intelligence with real-time analytics. The integrated platform from Securonix and ThreatQuotient will deliver unified visibility, much faster response, and also greater operational clarity. The company rolled out “agentic” GenAI modules promising to triage alerts and draft response playbooks with minimal human input. The combination of these two platforms will create a comprehensive, modular, and fully integrated AI-driven platform for threat detection and response. This strategic acquisition is expected to create a market-leading security operations platform with advanced capabilities to combat a wide range of cyber threats.
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