Cybersecurity player Darktrace acquired network traffic visibility platform provider Mira Security.

The deal will see Mira Security's U.S. and South Africa-based engineering teams join Darktrace's U.K.-based research and development division. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed.

Darktrace noted that the deal will drive the “next generation of Darktrace hardware, enabling 100 Gb/s interfaces [and] increasing ingestion capacity," while enhancing the parent company’s work in low-level networking and protocol design to extend visibility across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments.

The integration between the pair will focus on highly regulated sectors, including financial services, government, and critical infrastructure.

Founded in 2020, Mira Security specializes in inline decryption, where encrypted network traffic is decrypted in real-time as it flows through a network. The firm aims to solve the issue of encrypted-traffic blind spots, where data encryption comes at some detriment to security – a pain point that has seen solutions from the likes of Cisco.

Mira has partnered with Darktrace itself, with the two collaborating for the first time a month ago on an integration of Mira’s Encrypted Traffic Orchestrator (ETO) with Darktrace’s flagship platform for analysis and understanding of encrypted traffic.

The Mira deal marks Darktrace’s second acquisition of 2024, following the acquisition of Cado Security, which added a network element to the Darktrace platform. That deal combined with the Mira acquisition positions Darktrace closer to an extended detection and response (XDR) platform, potentially rivaling the likes of Palo Alto Networks.