INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
SolarWinds, the company behind tools like Pingdom, Papertrail, Loggly and a number of other IT management tools, today announced it has
acquired Trusted Metrics, a company that helps businesses monitor incoming threats to their networks and servers
This move follows SolarWinds’ acquisition of Loggly earlier this year
Among other things, Loggly also provides a number of security tools for enterprises.Today’s acquisition of Trusted Metrics is clearly
part of the company’s strategy to build out its security portfolio, and SolarWinds is actually rolling Trusted Metrics into a new
security product called SolarWinds Threat Monitor
Like Trusted Metrics, SolarWinds Threat Monitor helps businesses protect their networks by automatically detecting suspicious activity and
malware.“When we look at the rapidly changing IT security landscape, the proliferation of mass-marketed malware and the non-discriminatory
approach of cybercriminals, we believe that real-time threat monitoring and management shouldn’t be a luxury, but an affordable option for
everyone,” said SolarWinds CEO Kevin Thompson in today’s announcement
“The acquisition of Trusted Metrics will allow us to offer a new product in the SolarWinds mold—powerful, easy to use, scalable—that
is designed to give businesses the ability to more easily protect IT environments and business operations.”SolarWinds did not disclose the
financial details of the transaction
Trusted Metrics was founded in 2010; although it received some seed funding, it never raised any additional funding rounds after that.
