Blue Coat Systems has entered into an agreement to acquire Solera Networks, a provider of big data security intelligence and analytics.
According to Blue Coat, the Solera DeepSee platform will add security analytics and forensic capabilities to its own portfolio.
Following the acquisition, the two firms are further expected to work together to provide root cause analysis capabilities for some 75 million users from over 15,000 customers worldwide, including the Fortune Global 500 companies.
“Today’s approach to securing the enterprise is missing an essential element – the ability to defend, react and resolve security issues by efficiently mining a very large dataset of network history to gain previously unavailable insights. The future of the industry is moving beyond just blocking malware and stopping targeted attacks to also identifying and resolving the full scope of the attacks in real time,” said Greg Clark, CEO at Blue Coat Systems.
Solera’s customers include the US Departments of Energy, Homeland Security and Defense, Hitachi, Qualcomm, Overstock.com, Parsons Corporation and Zions Bank.