E8 Security

E8 Security — the American developer of intellectual technologies of cyber defense. The platform which is developed by the company uses machine learning and artificial intelligence for acceleration of identification of cyberthreats. She detects anomalies, suspicious behavior and harmful activity at an early stage, based on correlation of data from different sources.

History

2018: VMware purchased E8

At the end of March, 2018 the American producer of means of virtualization VMware announced acquisition of a startup of E8 Security due to which the buyer to expect to expand possibilities of the platform of administration of the Workspace ONE applications. Financial terms of transaction do not reveal.

VMware purchased the developer of AI tools for identification of cyberthreats

The possibilities of E8 Security integrated into Workspace ONE will allow our clients to work with a single platform which simplifies management and security by correlation of data for exact detection and response to expanded threats using analytics — the senior vice president of division of VMware End User Computing Sumit Dhawan said.

According to him, the automatic analysis of behavior of users and different elements will provide to Workspace ONE Intelligence service valuable information on threats.

The CEO of E8 Security Matt Jones reported that his company, having joined VMware, will be able to improve the technologies for deployment in larger IT infrastructures.

Having integrated our technologies with analysis opportunities, analytical applications and powerful functions of automation Workspace ONE, clients of VMware will be able to benefit by the simplified method of use of data from several cybersecurity solutions of security and detection of threats on the basis of behavior and risk analysis — he reported.

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