Security News > 2020 > June > VMware to Acquire Network Security Company Lastline
VMware on Thursday announced that it's acquiring network security company Lastline for its research team and threat detection technology.
The firm also noted that its team includes 15 PhDs. While VMware has praised Lastline employees, TechCrunch has learned that the virtualization giant actually plans on laying off roughly 50 people from Lastline following the acquisition - this represents 40% of the company's staff.
VMware said Lastline employees will join the team that builds its NSX network and security virtualization platform.
"VMware NSX has deep visibility into network traffic, touching every packet. The NSX architecture will allow Lastline to perform network analytics at massive scale, across tens of thousands of cores, without the burden of tapping network traffic. Furthermore, NSX has an intrinsic understanding of application topology and speaks Layer 7. So it knows the difference between a web server and a database and understands what an application is doing," explained Tom Gillis, SVP and GM of VMware's networking and security unit.
VMware announced last month that it acquired Kubernetes security company Octarine.