Crowdstrike confirms deal to acquire Bionic

In a blog post, Crowdstrike’s Michael Sentonas stated: “I’m excited to share that today at Fal.Con, CrowdStrike announced it has agreed to acquire Bionic, a pioneer of application security posture management, ASPM. This will give our customers the most seamless and comprehensive view of cloud risk – from code development through runtime – in a single, unified platform. With CrowdStrike Falcon Cloud Security, CrowdStrike set the bar for stopping breaches in the cloud by giving customers unified agent-based and agentless protection in a single offering to provide complete visibility, protection and compliance for cloud infrastructure and workloads from one platform. With this acquisition, CrowdStrike will once again raise the bar by delivering the industry’s most complete code-to-runtime cybersecurity platform, providing comprehensive risk visibility and protection across the entire cloud estate… After exhaustive due diligence evaluating organizations in the application security market, we determined that Bionic is unique in its ability to understand the risk that exists within applications, during development and in production… We believe this is the future of cloud security and what is required to help customers stop breaches in the cloud… We’re excited to showcase the power of Bionic unified with our industry-leading Falcon platform to give every customer the deep visibility of risk they need to stop the modern adversary.”