The acquisition adds threat monitoring and management to its IT Management Portfolio.
SolarWinds has announced that it has acquired Trusted Metrics, a provider of real-time threat monitoring and management software. The acquisition extends SolarWinds’ IT management portfolio to include security monitoring and is an important advance in SolarWinds’ mission to provide products that are purposefully designed to make the jobs of technology professionals easier.
“For nearly 20 years, SolarWinds has focused on helping to address our customers’ everyday IT management challenges — working to make sure that our products are designed to be powerful, yet easy to use, and work the way that technology professionals need them to work. And because we serve such a wide range of technology professionals, we understand the unique challenge that security presents — whether an organization is managing its IT infrastructure directly or working with a managed service provider (MSP),” stated Kevin Thompson, CEO, SolarWinds. “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. 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.”