Microsoft interested in cloud security provider Adallom

Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, has defended from the beginning the need to evolve from a traditional PC software company to one more focused on the cloud, mobility and services. It is with this strategy that Microsoft has ended up with something as its own as Windows licenses and it is within it that its commitment to security is framed as a service of added value to the rest of its products.

In this line, Redmond acquired at the end of last year Aorato, a provider specialized in security infrastructures and automated learning services. Now, according to the Israeli portal Calcalist, Microsoft would be thinking of disbursing about 320 million dollars in exchange for Adallom, another company that offers security tools and data collection in corporate environments.

What is Adallom?

Adallom is a security provider based in Palo Alto (California) and was founded in 2012 by former spies of the Israeli Intelligence Corps. It specializes in backend security tools that allow you to collect usage data and detect any suspicious activity.

Among its clients, as detailed on its own website, there are large companies both North American (as HP) and European (SAP), as well as some of the most successful digital companies today (Netflix).

How does Adallom help Microsoft?

Although at the moment there is no official comment from Microsoft or Adallom, the truth is that it is easy to foresee the application of the latter's technology in the services and products of the former.

In this sense, Adallom applications can help protect Microsoft's online services such as Office 365 and Yammer, detecting anomalies in the usage patterns of these services and blocking suspicious access to the service.

Buy at a delicate moment for the company.

This movement of Microsoft, although of little monetary value for the figures that are normally considered in this type of acquisitions, takes place at a somewhat delicate moment for the company. Not in vain, this month Microsoft announced the dismissal of 7,800 employees, 2,300 of them from the headquarters of the former Nokia in Finland.

These new layoffs are added to the 18,000 that the company announced last year also to restructure the mobile business acquired from the Finnish company, for which he paid 7.2 billion dollars.