CrowdStrike enters advanced talks to buy Orion for about $500 million

ORION's founders built an AI-driven alternative to policy-heavy data loss prevention; the reported deal remains unsigned and CrowdStrike has not confirmed it.

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Primary source: Ctech

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A reported $500 million figure puts ORION's effort to replace policy-heavy DLP with AI-based context analysis in the context of a potential sale. The figure's basis is unclear, CrowdStrike has not confirmed the talks, and no deal has been completed.

CrowdStrike enters advanced talks to buy Orion for about $500 million — ORION's founders built an AI-driven alternative to policy-heavy data loss prevention; the reported deal remains unsigned and CrowdStrike has not confirmed it.

Nitay Milner and Jonathan Kreiner built ORION Security around a familiar security-team complaint: traditional data loss prevention tools depend on rules that need constant tuning and still miss risky behavior. Ctech reports that CrowdStrike is in advanced negotiations to buy ORION for about $500 million.…

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