Artificial intelligence-based cyber risk management company SAFE Securities Inc. today announced that it has acquired cybersecurity posture firm Balbix Inc. for an undisclosed sum.
Founded in 2015, Balbix specializes in artificial intelligence-native cyber risk and exposure management that helps enterprises gain continuous visibility into their attack surface, including cloud, on-premises and third-party assets.
Balbix’s automated exposure-management platform discovers assets, inventories systems, detects vulnerabilities and misconfigurations and assesses threat and control efficacy in real time. The platform categorizes its findings based on risk-based prioritization that doesn’t treat every finding equally but instead links technical security issues to business context, identifying which assets are most critical, which exposures are most likely to be exploited and which remedial actions will yield the highest impact.
Cyber risks are quantified, with the platform translating exposure and vulnerability data into business-impact metrics such as potential financial losses or operational disruption. That allows security leaders to articulate the seriousness of a…
