Databricks, a leader in data and AI technology, has announced its intent to acquire Panther, a premier AI-powered Security Operations Center (SOC) platform. The acquisition aims to advance the security lakehouse a modern security software category engineered to replace legacy Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems with an autonomous, agentic framework.
By integrating Panther’s capabilities, Databricks intends to help organizations identify threats more effectively, analyze every incoming alert, and mitigate AI-driven cyberattacks using advanced artificial intelligence. Trusted by highly demanding, AI-native organizations including Anthropic Panther has demonstrated its ability to defend sophisticated cloud environments. This transaction marks the third security-focused acquisition by Databricks, expanding its specialized AI security product division and expanding its infrastructure investments.
Modernizing Cybersecurity for the AI Era
AI cyber attacks have evolved at an incredibly fast pace compared to human-based cyber security strategies. Criminals are using AI to identify security vulnerabilities and attack vectors in cloud environments and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
On the other hand, SIEM systems are often hampered by high costs and limited amounts of ingested data, as well as by manually intensive processes used to analyze the data collected by such solutions. Thus, many companies end up processing only a minor percentage of their telemetry data.
Panther bridges this defense gap by substituting closed, cost-prohibitive SIEM architectures with automated SOC workflows. This operational framework allows security teams to systematically investigate alerts and disrupt complex attacks at the speed and scale dictated by modern AI threats.
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“Legacy SIEM was never designed for AI,” said Ali Ghodsi, Co founder and CEO of Databricks. “Databricks, which has the trust of 70% of the Fortune 500 in data and AI, is doubling down on Lakewatch and our security lakehouse vision. With Panther, we enhance and expand our ability to analyze all data and automate SOC workflows. Together, we can offer the best platform to help defend the world against agentic attacks.”
“We are thrilled to join Databricks and help accelerate the security lakehouse vision,” said Jack Naglieri, Founder and CEO of Panther.
Expanding the Capabilities of the Security Lakehouse
The introduction of Panther is a direct continuation of the earlier introduction of Lakewatch, a security lakehouse by Databricks, that provides protection against complex cyber threats. Lakewatch integrates all security, IT, and enterprise data in one governed platform for self-governed threat analysis and reaction. This helps companies to consume, store, and analyze vast amounts of data from security logs while lowering their overall cost of ownership (TCO).
Panther adds even more value with its 100+ built-in data connections, strong capabilities for writing detections as code, and artificial intelligence-assisted security operation centers (SOC) workflows.
The upcoming acquisition comes on the heels of other cybersecurity acquisitions made by Databricks, including Antimatter and SiftD.ai.
The proposed acquisition remains subject to customary closing protocols, including the receipt of required regulatory approvals.
