1Password, the AgileBits-owned password management software developer, today announced that it has acquired Kolide, an endpoint security platform, for an undisclosed amount.
Kolide’s platform, which Meller co-launched in 2016 with Mike Arpaia and Zach Wasserman, offers security-related endpoint alerts, remediation and more delivered via Slack.
Customers and their employees get features like security issue context, self-remediation steps for Mac, Windows and Linux devices and a personalized privacy center, all built on the open source and Facebook-led universal endpoint agent project Osquery.
“Kolide is built on the principle that end users, when honestly informed and motivated, are perhaps the most effective resource that security-focused organizations will ever have against the world’s most nuanced and devastating security threats,” Meller told TechCrunch via email.
Kolide is 1Password’s third acquisition after SecretHub, a Dutch cybersecurity company, and Passage, a Texas-based passkey tool provider — and comes at a prosperous moment in the firm’s history.
Facing headwinds in a weak cybersecurity market, 1Password has bucked the trend — raising hundreds of millions of venture dollars at a multibillion-dollar valuation.
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