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IBM Security to Acquire ReaQta for xDR Push

IBM Security on Tuesday announced plans to acquire ReaQta, an early-stage European startup in the red-hot autonomous threat detection and response business.

Financial terms of the transaction were not released. ReaQta, based in the Netherlands, raised an undisclosed Series A funding round earlier this year.

IBM Security on Tuesday announced plans to acquire ReaQta, an early-stage European startup in the red-hot autonomous threat detection and response business.

Financial terms of the transaction were not released. ReaQta, based in the Netherlands, raised an undisclosed Series A funding round earlier this year.

IBM Security, based in Armonk, New York, said the acquisition expands its push in the extended detection and response (XDR) market. The deal is expected to close later this year.

[ READ: Three Approaches to an XDR Architecture ]

In tandem with the planned ReaQta acquisition, the company also unveiled IBM QRadar XDR, a platform that combines the collection of network telemetry with traditional monitoring and rapid response technologies.

Once the deal closes, IBM said ReaQta’s technology will become part of this new portfolio, adding expanded native XDR capabilities to IBM’s security portfolio

ReaQta, which maintains offices in the Netherlands and Singapore, has built a behavioral-based platform that promises to help stop known and unknown threats in real-time and can be deployed in a hybrid model — on premise or in the cloud as well as air gapped environments.

Related: SentinelOne Snaps up Scalyr in $155M Deal

Related: IBM: Average Cost of Data Breach Exceeds $4.2 Million

Related: XDR is a Destination, Not a Solution 

Related: Three Approaches to an XDR Architecture 

Written By

Ryan Naraine is Editor-at-Large at SecurityWeek and host of the popular Security Conversations podcast series. He is a security community engagement expert who has built programs at major global brands, including Intel Corp., Bishop Fox and GReAT. Ryan is a founding-director of the Security Tinkerers non-profit, an advisor to early-stage entrepreneurs, and a regular speaker at security conferences around the world.

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