{"id":42266,"date":"2021-07-12T11:50:54","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T11:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=301644c19de3f4d693ae86538e0e8f8d"},"modified":"2021-07-12T11:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T11:50:54","slug":"microsoft-will-reportedly-acquire-riskiq-for-500-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-will-reportedly-acquire-riskiq-for-500-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft will reportedly acquire RiskIQ for $500 million"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Microsoft is set to strike a deal to acquire security software firm RiskIQ as it seeks to bolster the security of its core products.<\/p>\n

RiskIQ provides customers with cloud-based\u00a0software as a service (SaaS)<\/a>\u00a0protection to detect phishing attacks, fraud attempts and malware infections. The company\u2019s SaaS platform taps into a global Internet Intelligence graph that\u2019s mapped billions of relationships between online elements within every organisation and hackers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\nMicrosoft is set to purchase the security company in a $500 million (roughly \u00a3361 million) deal,\u00a0according to\u00a0Bloomberg<\/em><\/a>, as it seeks to integrate RiskIQ\u2019s services into its flagship products and improve the overall resilience for customers.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This would play into the trend of Microsoft adding more security-oriented tools to platforms like Windows and Azure in recent years as the prospect of cyber threats continues to swell.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, for example, Microsoft announced a strategic shift to\u00a0compile its detection and event management services under the Microsoft Defender brand<\/a>, alongside a host of new services and tools that customers can adopt. The firm described Microsoft Defender, at the time, as the \u201cbroadest resource coverage\u201d of any portfolio across the industry, spanning identity protection, endpoints, cloud applications and infrastructure.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This has come alongside a recruitment drive to add staff to examine Microsoft\u2019s products for vulnerabilities, respond to attacks that its clients face, as well as run the Microsoft threat Intelligence Center,\u00a0Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0also reports.<\/p>\n

Microsoft also\u00a0struck a partnership with the cyber security organisation MITRE<\/a>\u00a0to integrate its adversarial tactics, techniques and common knowledge (ATT&CK) framework into Azure to build a foundation for developing threat models.<\/p>\n

This integration saw the organisations jointly launch the Security Stack Mappings for Azure research project, which introduced a library of mappings that connect built-in Azure security controls to the techniques, identified by ATT&CK, that they\u2019re designed to protect against.\u00a0<\/p>\n

In June, meanwhile, Microsoft also acquired\u00a0Internet of Things (IoT)<\/a>\u00a0security firm ReFirm Labs for an undisclosed fee. Microsoft highlighted the open source Binwalk software, which analyses thousands of device types for firmware issues, as a key reason for why it pursued the acquisition. The firm added these analytical capabilities would help secure IoT and operational technology (OT) devices through Azure Defender for IoT.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Microsoft, alongside a number of other major companies, has been struggling to deal with the fallout of several major attacks. The most recent has been the\u00a0Kaseya cyber attack<\/a>, although this is just the latest in a particularly devastating series of events including\u00a0the SolarWinds Orion<\/a>\u00a0hack as well as the\u00a0Microsoft Exchange Server incident<\/a>. \u00a0 <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/p>\n

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Microsoft is set to strike a deal to acquire security software firm RiskIQ as it seeks to bolster the security of its core products.
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