Sofos has definitely closed the purchase of the Secureworks Security Companyoperation he announced in autumn, for which has paid around 859 million of dollars. Sofos, which has had the support of Thoma Bravo to make the purchase effective, has thus brought to secureworks from stock market, and becomes a supplier of managed services (MDR) that supports more than 28,000 companies worldwide.
The payment of the amount invested by Sofos to stay with Secureworks will be completely made in cash, and Secureworks shareholders, among which Dell Technologies are, will receive 8.50 dollars in cash for each title they possess. This represents a 28% premium on the average Price weighted by volume of the action at 90 days not affected.
The combination of its portfolio of products and services with that of Secureworks will allow the company to offer a security operations platform with hundreds of incorporated integrations. Sofos X-Ops will also expand its intelligence functions of threats and security services thanks to the integration of Couter Threat Unit of Secureworks. It will also have more operating equipment and security advice.
In the short term, both Sofos and Secureworks will operate as usual, working with their partners, MSP and MSSP to distribute their services and security technology. The sales teams and customer experience of both, meanwhile, will work to support the customers of the two companies, help with renovations and develop current and future business opportunities.
Joe Levy, Ceo de Sophoshas detailed that the company «It differs by our very mature competitions in the detection of ransomware, analysis of malware and crafts of threat actors. These defenses are reinforced by the native artificial intelligence (AI), innovated for the first time by our team of recognized worldwide almost a decade ago, and integrated into our MDR, Endpoint, network, email and cloud security for neutralize and stop the threats with greater efficiency.
With the integration of Secureworks, our expanded portfolio of services and products will provide even more solid external security solutions that will include detection and response to identity threats (ITDR), new generation and managed risk, all on a single platform open ».
In addition, Levy stressed that with the operation they can also advance “Even more in our AI, intelligence of threats and research of attacks through a more diverse and deep global telemetry that is adapted by analysts to the real world. At all levels, we are very excited about this next accelerated chapter for Sophos ».
