Security News > 2021 > February > Inside the Battle to Control Enterprise Security Data Lakes
NEWS ANALYSIS: The strategic positioning to own and control the massive data lakes powering enterprise security programs took another expensive turn with CrowdStrike announcing it would shell out $400 million to buy early-stage log analytics start-up Humio.
The CrowdStrike/Humio marriage signals a continuation of the trend by anti-malware vendors to beef up data logging and indexing capabilities to cash in on "Proactively-collect-and-store-everything" policies at larger enterprises.
That's $789 million in just three deals combining anti-malware capabilities with the always-on log analytics tools required to parse through terabytes of data per data to find signs of malware and other malicious activities.
The pay-per-usage model can be incredibly expensive for defenders ingesting, logging and indexing terabytes of data per day.
With the Humio tech, CrowdStrike can now market a complete suite to ingest and correlate data from any log, application or feed to deliver actionable insights and real-time protection.
Assuming the integration goes smoothly, CrowdStrike expects to eventually market a platform that spans endpoints, identities, the network edge, and the cloud, offering that "Unified data layer" to help enterprise security and IT operations.