Humio

Humio is the creator of the Humio real-time observation platform, which allows you to aggregate, investigate, compile reports and analyze data from various sources. The specially designed logging tool features storage technologies and search/query mechanisms in memory.

History

2021: Acquisition by CrowdStrike for $400 million

The company, a CrowdStrike funds vendor, announced information security on February 18, 2021 the acquisition of British startup Humio, whose flagship product is a platform for analyzing event logs cloudy in environments.

Founded by a Russian CrowdStrike bought a software developer to analyze event logs < br/> Source photo: laptrinhx.com

Founded in 2016, Humio by February 2021 has become a very prominent player in the data processing market. Among her clients are Microsoft and Bloomberg. During the five years of its existence, Humio managed to attract about $30 million in investments from companies such as Accel and Dell.

The Humio platform enables rapid analysis of both fully and partially structured data in the cloud and local infrastructure. This allows their operators to better understand what is happening and how, prepare for unforeseen situations, prevent problems and recover faster in the event of incidents.

Such tools play a very important role in protecting information, especially when it comes to the infrastructure of corporate scale and the amount of data measured by many terabytes daily. Security vendors understand this well, which is demonstrated both by the acquisition of Humio by CrowdStrike, and the recent purchase by SentinelOne company of another developer of such analytics tools - Scalyr. One of the key problems that such systems are designed to solve is the redundancy of data from disparate sources and the lack of effectiveness of their analysis. The volume of data and the number of their sources are constantly growing, which means that the "surface of attack" that can be used by attackers and which must be protected is also increasing. In this regard, tools that allow you to quickly filter out irrelevant data become critical, says Dmitry Gvozdev, CEO of Information Technologies of the Future.

The development of Humio CrowdStrike plans to expand the XDR functionality of its Falcon Security Cloud system. XDR (eXtended Detection and Response - Advanced Incident Detection and Response) is a technology for tracking complex threats that covers all elements of the infrastructure, from endpoints to cloud applications. Humio technologies were chosen because of their maturity and high performance, as well as common CrowdStrike views and approaches to information security issues and methods for solving them based on context data.

A critical challenge to cybersecurity is the overload of data, which must be avoided with all its might. This is a fundamental architectural problem that every security vendor needs to solve. If the system it creates (XDR) encounters an oversupply of data, you have to go to compromises. We have seen different vendors limit the amount of input to reduce margins or bandwidth problems, or even hide some data to avoid overloading analytics. The limitations and trade-offs of vendors using an aging architecture in cloud environments (originally designed for local environments) reduce the security and efficiency of people in charge of information security, leaving organizations blind before attacks. wrote on the blog CrowdStrike Michael Sentonas, technical director CrowdStrike.

According to him, after closing the deal with Humio, his company will be able to offer customers an "unprecedented" combination of threat identification capabilities in any environment.

Apparently, an unusually high deal amount is associated with these expectations: CrowdStrike buys out Humio for $400 million.

The company CrowdStrike was established in 2011. Its founders were George Kurtz, Gregg Marston and Dmitry Alperovich (left the company in 2020).

In 2019, CrowdStrike launched the^[1] exchange].

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