Microsoft acquires enterprise security company RiskIQ

Microsoft has acquired the security company RiskIQ. This company mainly focuses on enterprise customers and how they can best secure their cloud network. According to Bloomberg sources, Microsoft is paying more than half a billion dollars for RiskIQ.

RiskIQ is according to Microsoft specialized in assessing the security of cloud networks of large companies. The security company investigates how secure a company’s connection is with cloud services such as those of Microsoft or AWS. In addition, the company looks at the network within a company itself and at security problems through possible suppliers.

Microsoft will offer the Attack Surface and Threat Intelligence packages from RiskIQ through its own Security package. Microsoft says it will continue to support RiskIQ’s PassiveTotal community. Within this community, security researchers share threat intelligence and analyze this intelligence using machine learning. Bloomberg says based on anonymous sources that Microsoft has paid more than 422 million euros for the American company.