CrowdStrike has announced the purchase of Spanish data intelligence company Onum, which specializes in real-time telemetry pipeline management.
According to Fortune, the deal is valued at $290 million dollars (€250 million) and involved three months of negotiations between the Madrid startup and the Austin, Texas-based cybersecurity company.
With the move, Crowdstrike hopes to turn its Falcon Next-Gen SIEM into the “definitive data foundation for agentic security and IT operations, eliminating onboarding friction while delivering autonomous detection capabilities,” asserted George Kurtz, CEO and founder of CrowdStrike, in a media release.
“Onum is both a pipeline and a filter, which will stream high-quality, filtered data directly into the platform to drive autonomous cybersecurity at scale,” Kurtz said. “This is how we stop breaches at the speed of AI while giving customers complete control over their entire data ecosystem — well beyond cybersecurity.”
Onum’s technology will complement Falcon’s, making it possible to detect risks before they enter the platform itself, according to the company. Thus, Falcon will gain in speed, by processing “five times more events per second than its closest competitor”; in costs, by lowering storage costs by 50% with intelligent optimization; or in results, by achieving a response to incidents up to 70% faster with 40% less ingest overhead, the company claims.
To Fortune, Kurtz explained that the more data they can process, “the larger the moat we actually have, and the greater the opportunity we have to solve bigger and broader problems from an AI perspective. That’s really driving our vision for AI-native SOC [security operations center].”
He added that CrowdStrike’s goal is to secure every AI agent: “If you think about the data we have, we started becoming the Reddit of security data for all these AI models.”
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