Forescout Technologies, Inc., announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Cysiv, a cybersecurity innovator that uses its cloud platform to improve detection and response to real threats. With this acquisition, Forescout will leverage Cysiv’s threat detection engine to analyze a wealth of network asset and communications data automatically collected by Forescout’s platform. According to the company, this comprehensive data across computing, IoT, OT, and IoMT devices, along with other critical data sources, enables better real-world threat detection and response so customers can operate more securely and more efficiently. efficient.

Upon closing of the acquisition, Cysiv will join Forescout. “Organizations need to be able to reduce the billions of data points on their networks to a handful of real, actionable threats – automatically. Together with Cysiv, Forescout will provide customers with the most powerful platform for automated cybersecurity on their digital grounds,” said Wael Mohamed, CEO of Forescout. “At closing, the acquisition will help our customers leverage actionable threat intelligence from comprehensive data collected by Forescout and analyzed by Cysiv. We will be getting more than cutting-edge technology in this acquisition. The Cysiv team is exceptional and our two organizations are very complementary.

The acquisition is expected to close in July 2022, subject to satisfaction of closing conditions and receipt of applicable regulatory approvals and follows its acquisition of CyberMDX which further strengthens Forescout’s computing, IoT and OT device coverage with IoMT expertise.

“We have always been on a mission to provide better threat detection and faster response,” said Partha Panda, CEO and co-founder of Cysiv. “After successfully collaborating last year, we are excited to join Forescout as we continue the next step in our journey. The combination of Forescout and Cysiv will provide organizations with the best threat detection, along with automated prioritization incidents and automated response.

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