Infoblox Completes Axur Acquisition and Adds Digital Risk Protection Services
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Infoblox completed its acquisition of Axur, a provider of AI-powered external threat discovery and digital risk protection. The deal expanded Infoblox’s preemptive security capabilities aimed at threats and risks outside customers’ direct control, tied to work on the external attack surface.
After the acquisition close, Infoblox said it would extend its ability to take down malicious infrastructure earlier in an attack lifecycle. The company also described a staged plan to use Axur-related capabilities to support Continuous Threat Exposure Management through an Infoblox Exposure Management initiative.
Infoblox stated that it would pair Digital Risk Protection Services (DRPS) with DNS-based security. DRPS is described as scanning more than 40 million URLs daily using multi-modal AI to discover and validate threats, then confirming real abuse and automating takedowns of attacker infrastructure. Infoblox said DRPS findings feed directly into Infoblox Threat Defense to block malicious destinations while takedowns are in progress, identify which internal assets reach them, and attribute that risk within minutes.
In addition, Infoblox said it would incorporate complementary skills, research capabilities, and data sources by combining Axur’s focus on how threats emerge in the broader digital ecosystem, including the dark web and social platforms, with Infoblox’s focus on DNS to detect, understand, and disrupt threats. Scott Harrell, president and CEO of Infoblox, said, “Infoblox is extending its leadership in preemptive security by expanding its ability to take down malicious infrastructure before it can be weaponized against enterprises,” and added, “By combining Axur’s external threat discovery, takedown and threat intelligence with Infoblox’s DNS-based security and intelligence, we expand Infoblox’s preemptive protection beyond enterprises’ perimeter and into arenas like social media, app stores and the dark web.”
Dr. Renée Burton, vice president of threat intelligence at Infoblox, said, “Axur brings highly complementary data sources and expertise that meaningfully expand our intelligence portfolio,” and, “Together, we can connect external signals with DNS-level insight to give customers clearer visibility and more confidence in how they respond.” Fabio Ramos, CEO of Axur, said, “This is an important milestone for Axur,” and, “Becoming part of Infoblox allows us to scale our mission globally and combine external threat intelligence with deep network insight to deliver a more proactive, measurable approach to security, and establish the foundation for managing threats across the full attack surface.” Infoblox planned to integrate Axur capabilities over time, with additional details to be shared as integration progressed.
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