Bitdefender completes acquisition of Horangi Cyber Security

Bitdefender, a global cybersecurity company, completed last week the acquisition of Horangi Cyber Security, based in Singapore, expanding its portfolio of products and services with rights management solutions for cloud infrastructure, cloud security management and security consulting services, the company informs in a press release.

"The acquisition of Horangi allows Bitdefender to help its customers solve the challenges directly and represents a milestone in our security solutions strategy on the road to continuous innovation," Florin Talpes, co-founder and CEO of Bitdefender, said on 17 August.

Bitdefender enriches its unified risk analysis and security platform GravityZone with Horangi's leading solutions - Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) and Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM). These solutions provide Bitdefender business customers, managed security service providers (MSPs) and partners with critical cloud security regulatory and compliance capabilities, in addition to threat prevention, protection, attack detection and incident response at the highest level.

Horangi's acquisition brings high-level cybersecurity services, plus a team of CREST-certified security analysts, red teams and security consultants. Horangi's portfolio of services will complement and expand Bitdefender Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services, adding to an elite team of cybersecurity specialists who detect, validate and stop attacks in real time for global business customers.

The terms of this transaction are confidential.

Bitdefender offers superior solutions for preventing, detecting and responding to cybersecurity incidents. Millions of systems used by people, companies and government institutions are protected by company solutions. As a result of sustained investments in research and development, Bitdefender labs discover hundreds of new threats every minute and validate 30 billion threat queries daily.

Founded in 2001, Bitdefender has customers in over 170 countries and offices on all continents.