Databricks said on the 30th that it will acquire Panther, an artificial intelligence (AI)-based SOC (Security Operations Center) company.
Panther is a corporation that shifted costly, closed security information and event management (SIEM) systems to AI agent-centric models. Traditional SIEM systems have shown limits against AI-based cyberattacks because of high operating expense, a narrow scope of data use, and manual, labor-heavy workflows. Today's attackers use AI agents to search in real time across systems such as cloud and software as a service (SaaS) for new vulnerabilities and attack paths.
Panther uses AI agents to help security teams investigate every alert faster and more efficiently without missing any, and to block attacks immediately at AI-level speed and scale.
Ali Ghodsi, Databricks co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO), said, "The ability to analyze security data and automate SOC workflows will expand further," adding, "We will provide the optimal platform to protect corporations from AI agent-based attacks."
Panther is Databricks' third acquisition in security. Databricks earlier said it would acquire Antimatter and SiftD.ai. In March, to counter increasingly sophisticated AI-based cyber threats, Databricks unveiled the enterprise cybersecurity platform "Lakewatch."