DomainTools Acquires Farsight Security

Farsight Security has been obtained by a domain name and DNS-dependent cyber threat intelligence organization dependent in Seattle, Washington.

DomainTools announced its acquisition on Tuesday, describing the deal as “a purely natural extension of the two companies’ long-standing partnership to provide the sector-foremost DNS intelligence and real-time security telemetry necessary to assess risk, map attacker infrastructure, and quickly improve visibility and context on threats.” 

Farsight Security is a DNS intelligence and passive DNS cybersecurity details options supplier primarily based in San Mateo, California. The organization utilizes proprietary technology to handle data and carry out true-time examination.

Led by DNS inventor Dr. Paul Mockapetris and by Internet Techniques Consortium (ISC) founder Dr. Paul Vixie, the company’s tech observes about 300,000 DNS resolutions for each next to give genuine-time actionable menace intelligence on how the internet is altering. 

DomainTools and Farsight have been functioning with each other since 2017 to supply Farsight’s  passive DNS facts by means of DomainTools’ Iris investigation platform.

“Over the a long time, DomainTools and Farsight have continually sent market place-foremost DNS intelligence and true-time security telemetry wanted to protect in opposition to today’s cyberattacks,” said Vixie, chairman, co-founder, and CEO of Farsight Security. 

“We recognize the enormous chance this acquisition presents not only for both of those companies, but also for our international customers. We are thrilled to join DomainTools at this subsequent phase of the company’s growth and, together, enable to make the internet safer for anyone.”

In a joint statement, the organizations stated that combining DNS observation knowledge with DomainTools’ lively DNS details will advantage buyers by giving them the earliest and most comprehensive appear into threats rising outside their network.

“DomainTools and Farsight have proven the benefit of our put together knowledge sets and integrated intelligence options more than quite a few decades. Our unified solution is applied by some of the most subtle security organizations throughout the world to increase the success of their risk intelligence and incident reaction capabilities,” said Tim Chen, CEO, DomainTools. 

“This acquisition boosts our capability to push security-ahead detection, investigation, enrichment and mitigation results for our joint clients whilst accelerating our information science breakthroughs for predictive risk scoring of domain names, hostnames, IP addresses, nameservers and other DNS indicators.” 

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