Cyderes, a global managed cybersecurity services partner, has acquired Lucidum, a provider of security data fabric and entity intelligence. The acquisition unifies Cyderes’ identity access management (IAM), exposure management and managed detection and response (MDR) solutions and is expected to accelerate its AI capabilities, the company said.
“Many organizations continue to operate with fragmented, inconsistent data across identity systems, assets, entitlements, cloud environments and endpoint telemetry. This fragmented view limits the ability to investigate incidents, prioritize exposures and understand relationships across the environment,” Cyderes officials said. “Meanwhile, attackers are increasingly using automated reconnaissance and AI to understand environments better than the defenders protecting them.”
Lucidum’s data fabric helps solves this problem, according to Cyderes, because it’s designed to unify identity, assets, privileges, exposures and relationships into a single, continuously updated representation of an organization’s environment. By providing the context security teams need to make quick and accurate decisions, this approach will provide a “reliable foundation” and function as the “nervous system for Cyderes’ broader portfolio,” officials said.
“Effective defense requires clarity, consistency and context,” said Chris Schueler, CEO of Cyderes. “Lucidum’s data fabric gives us the shared foundation necessary to unify that context across every environment we protect. This becomes the backbone for our IAM, exposure management and MDR capabilities, the base layer upon which we will build the SaaS offerings and AI-driven capabilities our clients need next.”
Lucidum’s data fabric uses a combination of machine learning, patented inference techniques and large-scale entity resolution to reconcile and map assets and identities across hybrid environments. The addition of Lucidum is expected to help Cyderes deliver stronger investigations, more accurate exposure prioritization and identity-first outcomes, even in environments where telemetry is incomplete, officials said.
“Cyderes is the right organization to bring the full value of our data fabric to market,” said Joel Fulton, CEO and founder of Lucidum. “Our goal has always been to provide organizations with the clarity needed to secure their digital ecosystems. Cyderes adds the operational capacity and agentic AI capabilities to act on that clarity and turn insight into measurable security outcomes.”
With Lucidum’s data fabric serving as the base for mesh architecture, Cyderes officials said they’ll be able to deploy agentic AI that unifies threat visibility, delivers data-driven response recommendations, and supports teams throughout investigation and response.
