High Valuations

"Microsoft acquires Aorato, provider of the Directory Services Application Firewall. Aorato's software monitors network traffic between Active Directory servers and users, looking for patterns of attack and then analyzing traffic details. Its focus on AD makes an obvious acquirer in Microsoft, which could use Aorato as a feature in a more comprehensive security offering or a feature for AD itself." 451 QuickTake.

"The combination of Splunk and Caspida technology revolutionizes the security market by unifying world-class breach response with breach detection. Recent high-profile breaches show virtually all attacks happen with compromised credentials, and automated detection leveraging machine learning is the future for detecting known and unknown threats from insider and external attackers." Source: Acquirer press release,7/9/15.