Splunk acquires data security outfit TruSTAR

The acquisitive vendor is pushing on with its security solutions expansion

US vendor Splunk is continuing its string of acquisitions in 2021 by entering an agreement to buy fellow San Francisco-based data security company TruSTAR for an undisclosed sum.

TruSTAR, established in 2014, bills itself as an intelligence management platform that enables customers to operationalise all sources of security intelligence across their ecosystem of teams, tools and partners.

Splunk claims this addition expands on its existing security capabilities and accelerates its "ability to offer the world's most comprehensive security solutions in the cloud."

"In today's data age, integrated and automated intelligence is critical to accelerate detection, streamline response and increase cyber resilience," said Splunk senior VP, cloud and chief product officer, Sendur Sellakumar.

"TruSTAR's cloud-native solution centralises threat data from a wide array of sources so it can be seamlessly integrated into Security Analytics and SOAR workflows to provide more autonomous, higher efficacy security operations."

Patrick Coughlin, co-founder and CEO of TruSTAR, added: "We founded TruSTAR to help security teams unlock the signal in their data to accelerate automation and power seamless intelligence sharing while preserving privacy in the cloud.

"Combining TruSTAR with Splunk's leading enterprise data platform will bring security and IT teams to a new level of integration, automation and resilience."

This marks the monitoring and analytics vendor's third acquisition since October, as it claims strengthening its observability software capabilities is a core priority for future growth.

Splunk snapped up cloud network observability specialist Flowmill in November, and Estonia-HQ application performance monitoring developer Plumbr, as well as Rigor, a US provider of digital experience monitoring software, in October.