Israel’s Build.security policy definition and enforcement platform to be acquired by research firm Elastic, the US-based company announcement Monday. The acquisition is expected to be completed in Elastic’s second fiscal quarter.
Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.
The Build.security team will be the basis for Elastic’s growing presence in Israel and an R&D center the company is set to establish in Te Aviv. Amit Kanfer, co-founder and CEO of Build.security, will be the site manager for the region.
Formerly known as Elasticsearch, Elastic was co-founded in 2012 by Israeli entrepreneur Shay Banon as a free, open search and analytics solution. The company has developed Elastic Stac which includes Elastic search, Kibana, Beats and Logstash, as well as other software systems that allow users to search and analyze data.
Elastic has acquired Build.security, a company specializing in the management of security policies for applications founded last year. The company is powered by the Open Policy Agent (OPA), a general-purpose, open-source policy engine that enables unified and contextual policy enforcement. The company’s technology provides developers with the building blocks they need to build and manage authorization control best practices on large-scale enterprise applications, while reducing security vulnerabilities. OPA is a graduate project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF.)
Elastic and Build.security intend to develop the ability to manage OPA policies in Kibana, enforce OPA policies through the Elastic agent, and store the results of OPA policy executions in Elasticsearch using Elastic Common Schema (ECS), the companies said.
The initial integration with Build.security will focus on the Kubernetes admission controller, enabling security and compliance at deployment time, and will continue with build policies by scanning cloud configuration files. Elastic said users will be able to “move to the left” and strengthen the security of their cloud native applications earlier in application lifecycles with this integration.
“For years, Elastic has provided millions of developers with powerful, free, and open technology,†Kanfer said. “We’re excited to partner with Elastic to deliver on the promise of a free and open policy management platform for cloud native environments, from code to cloud to runtime.
“Since the inception of Elastic Security, we have launched a vision of what Limitless XDR should be: the ability of customers to prevent, detect and respond to threats in real time, all on a single platform. To do this, we brought SIEM together to detect threats and endpoint security to protect and resolve issues across all endpoints, including in the cloud, â€added Banon. “We are delighted to partner with Build.security to bring open policy management to Elastic Security and invest in Open Policy Agent and its large and emerging community.
