{"id":16059,"date":"2015-07-20T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=230651"},"modified":"2015-07-20T12:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:50:27","slug":"microsoft-buys-islraeli-security-startup-adallom-for-320-plans-israel-cybersecurity-centre-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-buys-islraeli-security-startup-adallom-for-320-plans-israel-cybersecurity-centre-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft buys Islraeli security startup Adallom for $320, plans Israel cybersecurity centre \u2013 report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_162091\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/11\/Cloud-security.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162091\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2013\/11\/Cloud-security.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft has reportedly acquired Adallom for $320m in a cloud security push\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Microsoft has reportedly acquired Adallom for $320m in a cloud security push<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Microsoft has apparently added Israeli cloud security startup Adallom to its arsenal, with multiple reports claiming the software company paid nearly $320m for the firm. The reports also suggest Microsoft is planning to open a cyber security centre in the region using some of the local talent it has acquired.<\/p>\n<p>Adallom has not confirmed the acquisition, while Microsoft spokespeople told BCN that the company has \u201cnothing to share\u201d about the reports.<\/p>\n<p>Adallom (an abbreviation of the Hebrew saying \u201cad halom,\u201d which means \u201cup to here\u201d or \u201cthe last line of defence\u201d) is a security service that integrates with the authentication chain of a range of SaaS applications and lets IT administrators monitor usage for every user on each device.<\/p>\n<p>The software works with a conjunction of end-point and network security solutions and has a built-in, self-learning engine that analyses user activity on SaaS applications and assesses the riskiness of each transaction in real-time, alerting administrators when activity becomes too risky for an organisation given its security policies.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which has its headquarters in California and a research and development outfit in Israel, was founded by cybersecurity veterans Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak and Roy Reznik in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The acquisition, first reported by Israeli business paper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globes.co.il\/en\/article-microsoft-buys-israeli-cloud-security-co-adallom-for-320m-1001054306\">Globes<\/a>, comes over half a year after its last security purchase; according to that report Microsoft plans to put Adallom and a number of other Israeli startups at the core of a new cybersecurity centre in Israel, a thriving hub from cybersecurity startups.<\/p>\n<p>In November last year Microsoft ended months of speculation when it confirmed it bought another Israel-based security startup, Aorato, which offered software that tracks user behaviour when accessing applications linked to Active Directory, both in the cloud and on premise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has apparently added Israeli cloud security startup Adallom to its arsenal, with multiple reports claiming the software company paid nearly $320m for the firm. The reports also suggest Microsoft is planning to open a cyber security centre in the region using some of the local talent it has acquired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2298,2185,51,616,1976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adallom","category-ma","category-microsoft","category-middle-east","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16068,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16059\/revisions\/16068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}