Arctic Wolf's acquisition of BlackBerry's Cylance endpoint security assets is anticipated to enhance its security operations platform and deliver improved value for customers and partners. The deal, valued at $160 million and 5.5 million shares, sees Arctic Wolf gain access to Cylance's AI-powered endpoint protection, robust OS support, and advanced incident response capabilities. This integration will bolster Arctic Wolf's open XDR platform, enabling customers to leverage a wider range of endpoint solutions and achieve a more unified security posture.
Cylance acquisition to add value for Arctic Wolf partners, customersJason Oehley, regional sales manager at Arctic Wolf.
Oehley notes that Cylance is the pioneer of AI-based endpoint protection and is trusted by thousands of organisations around the world. With this acquisition, Arctic Wolf is able to enhance its security operations offering. With the addition of a native endpoint security solution to its portfolio, Arctic Wolf is building one of the largest open XDR security platforms in the industry, enabling customers and partners to have the option to leverage more than 15 supported endpoint solutions.
“Arctic Wolf is an open extended detection and response architecture, committed to openness and interoperability with the third-party ecosystem, because we fully understand that most customers have started that security journey,” he says. “Therefore we still maintain that openness to support third party endpoint solutions that they already have in place.”
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