Guardsquare has completed the acquisition of Verimatrix’s Extended Threat Defense (XTD) technology and related assets, significantly enhancing its mobile application security platform. This strategic move combines XTD’s advanced threat prediction, detection, and response capabilities with Guardsquare’s existing solutions, creating a more comprehensive end-to-end approach to protecting mobile apps. The acquisition addresses the rising wave of mobile threats, as organizations face increasing attacks targeting applications in critical sectors.
The integration of Verimatrix XTD strengthens Guardsquare’s position as a leader in mobile security by adding proactive, runtime threat intelligence to its already robust suite of development-time and runtime protections. This end-to-end coverage—from automated security testing and code hardening to real-time threat detection and API security—helps developers and enterprises defend against sophisticated attacks, reverse engineering, and tampering in an increasingly hostile mobile threat landscape.
“The completion of this acquisition marks an important milestone for mobile security, and it aligns with our ongoing M&A strategy to further enhance our platform and increase our customer reach,” said Roel Caers, CEO of Guardsquare. “The integration of XTD complements Guardsquare’s mobile app security platform, reinforcing our end-to-end approach, which includes automated testing, multi-layered protection, real-time threat monitoring, and API security.”
By incorporating XTD, Guardsquare expands its global footprint and deepens industry coverage in high-stakes sectors such as financial services and healthcare. The addition of specialized talent from the XTD team will drive faster innovation and platform evolution to meet evolving customer needs.
Guardsquare has committed to uninterrupted service for current XTD users, ensuring continuity of support, product functionality, and partner relationships. Partners will continue to sell and support XTD solutions as part of the broader Guardsquare offering.
This acquisition reinforces Guardsquare’s mission to deliver the highest level of mobile application security with minimal friction, empowering organizations worldwide to protect their apps and SDKs against emerging threats.
About Verimatrix
Verimatrix helps power the modern connected world with security made for people. We protect digital content, applications, and devices with intuitive, people-centered and frictionless security. Leading brands turn to Verimatrix to secure premium movies, live streaming sports, sensitive financial and healthcare data, mission-critical mobile applications, and much more. We enable the trusted connections our customers depend on to deliver compelling content and experiences to millions of consumers around the world. Verimatrix helps partners get to market faster, scale easily, protect valuable revenue streams, and win new business.
About Guardsquare
Guardsquare offers the most complete approach to mobile application security on the market, delivering the highest level of protection, with ease. Guardsquare integrates seamlessly across the full development cycle, from mobile app security testing and code hardening to real-time threat detection and API security. Guardsquare provides enhanced mobile application security across the entire development process. More than 975 customers worldwide across all major industries rely on Guardsquare to help them identify security risks and protect their mobile applications and SDKs against reverse engineering and tampering in the ever-evolving threat landscape.
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