HelpSystems has bought threat assessment outfit Digital Defense.
The company said that Digital Defense’s cloud-native vulnerability scanning engine gives organisations in healthcare, legal, financial services, and other industries the ability to proactively detect infrastructure security gaps and take effective remediation steps to safeguard against internal and external cyberthreats. A
s part of HelpSystems’ cybersecurity portfolio, Digital Defense joins Core Security and Cobalt Strike to establish a security assessment toolkit.
HelpSystems CEO Kate Bolseth said: “The addition of Digital Defense offers threat-weary IT teams the capabilities they need to increase infrastructure security on two fronts: via leading-edge vulnerability management technology as well as seasoned pen-testing resources to broaden our existing expertise. We are so happy to welcome the team and the award-winning products they’ve developed to HelpSystems.”
The Digital Defense platforms aim at enterprise security needs across penetration testing, employee training, cybersecurity defence, enterprise risk assessment, and physical security testing.