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HPE acquires security startup Niara to boost its ClearPass portfolio

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise has acquired Niara, a startup that uses machine learning and big data analytics on enterprise packet streams and log streams to detect and protect customers from advanced cyberattacks that have penetrated perimeter defenses.

The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Operating in the User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA) market, Niara’s technology starts by automatically establishing baseline characteristics for all users and devices across the enterprise and then looking for anomalous, inconsistent activities that may indicate a security threat, Keerti Melkote, senior vice president and general manager of HPE Aruba and cofounder of Aruba Networks, wrote in a blog post on Wednesday.

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Startup Niara aims to catch stealthy attacks

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Startup Niara has come out of stealth to do battle in the growing field of security intelligence and analytics where it detects and correlates anomalous behaviors and assigns confidence scores that indicate whether they should be further investigated as threats.

Niara Security Intelligence is a software platform that gathers data from TAP or SPAN ports on routers, logs, SIEMs, IDSes and other third-party products customers may already own.

Its Niara Analyzer crunches the data and correlates events that could represent attacks, assigns severity scores and issues alerts that can be drilled into by security analysts to reveal the underlying forensic elements from which the analyzer concluded threats.

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Network World Tim Greene