IBM Sells Cybersecurity Group
20 May 2024 at 07:04
IBM is selling its QRadar product suite to Palo Alto Networks, for an undisclosedβbut probably surprisingly smallβsum.
I have a personal connection to this. In 2016, IBM bought Resilient Systems, the startup I was a part of. It became part if IBMβs cybersecurity offerings, mostly and weirdly subservient to QRadar.
That was what seemed to be the problem at IBM. QRadar was IBMβs first acquisition in the cybersecurity space, and it saw everything through the lens of that SIEM system. I left the company two years after the acquisition, and near as I could tell, it never managed to figure the space out.
So now itβs Palo Altoβs turn.