Kaseya goes from customer to owner with latest acquisition

Vendor shells out for phishing specialist Graphus

Kaseya has snapped up US-based phishing specialist Graphus after being impressed with its capabilities as a customer.

The Dublin-based IT management software vendor has bought Graphus for an undisclosed sum, and intends to integrate its offerings into its own IT Complete platform.

Graphus was founded in 2015 by Manoj Srivastavaand Vishal Dixit and uses AI to protect Office 365 and G Suite inboxes from a range of attacks, including phishing and malware.

"Kaseya can speak to Graphus' impressive capabilities firsthand, having been a customer for nearly a year," stated Fred Voccola, CEO of Kaseya.

"Like most other businesses, we face countless phishing and identity-spoofing attacks every week. As an Office 365 shop, we were relying on O365's Advanced Threat Protection, but found a lot was still getting through.

"With Graphus protecting over 3,200 Kaseya inboxes and processing over 22 million of our emails, we've eliminated about 250,000 unsafe emails, quarantined nearly 15,000 phishing attacks, and blocked 3,400 executive spoofing and 2,400 impersonation attacks.

"Having seen these outstanding results for ourselves, I'm even more excited to extend the same unmatched protection to our customers so they can close the security gaps of their cloud email platforms and, for MSPs, provide a low-cost solution to generate additional profits."

Graphus will operate as a separate business within Kaseya, lead by chief exec Srivastava.

"We're thrilled to join the Kaseya family and integrate Graphus into Kaseya's IT Complete platform," Srivastava said.

"We've already integrated Graphus and [simulation and security awareness training solution] BullPhish ID to provide seamless provisioning of our automated phishing defence solution to existing BullPhish customers, and are diligently working to build additional integrations into IT Complete.

"With phishing attacks on the rise, Kaseya customers can now amplify their existing suite of security tools with Graphus' powerful automated email defence to create the most comprehensive, end-to-end security stack possible."