Databricks and their data intelligence platform have announced Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity to help organizations defend against modern and AI-driven threats with more accuracy, stronger governance and greater flexibility. Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity, which is unified, AI-driven threat intelligence in real time, seamlessly integrates with enterprises’ existing security stacks, unifying all data and leveraging an open partner ecosystem so security teams can fully harness the power of AI — spotting risks earlier, understanding the full context of an attack and responding with greater speed. Building on this foundation, Databricks Agent Bricks enables enterprises to build AI apps and agents that not only accurately analyze their data but also take safely-governed actions across every step of the security workflow.
“Databricks and its customers are embracing a major shift in cybersecurity – recognizing that many cyber risks fundamentally stem from how data is managed, analyzed, and protected,” said Omar Khawaja, VP of Security and Field CISO at Databricks. “This is a transformative development for Databricks and all organizations investing in modern data platforms, because it means they can now leverage advanced data and AI capabilities to address security at its roots, directly within the Databricks ecosystem.
“By treating cyber as a core data problem, Databricks empowers customers to unify analytics, governance, and threat protection – unlocking new levels of visibility, prevention, and resilience for their most important business assets,” Khawaja added.
The company said that they were excited to announce Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity, which they called the Databricks platform to unify, govern, and activate enterprise data with agentic AI and automation. With attacks at record highs, security teams need more than tools, they need a unified data foundation for real-time, AI-driven defense.
This platform includes: Agent Bricks to build production-ready AI agents; a governed security lakehouse unifying security, IT, and business data; Lakebase, for real-time security apps; Databricks One + AI/BI Genie for self-service insights; and an open partner ecosystem integrates with existing security stacks
Khawaja said that with Databricks, your data and AI platform becomes your strongest defense.
“With Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity, Databricks is making data and AI every organization’s strongest defense strategy,” Khawaja stated. “Security teams can now gain a more accurate, governed and flexible approach to building AI agents that proactively combat today’s modern and AI-based threats.”
While many organizations struggle to use AI to respond effectively because of generic models and fragmented data, leading to slower responses, limited visibility and overall higher risk, Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity solves these challenges for customers and provides real-time intelligence with broad visibility and rich context about the organization, built on Databricks’ Lakehouse architecture. This enables security teams to detect hidden threats and respond quickly and effectively to increasingly sophisticated attacks.
Leading customers have already transformed their security operations with Data Intelligence for Cybersecurity, reporting significant gains in detection speed, threat investigation and cost reduction. Arctic Wolf operates one of the largest data platforms in cybersecurity, processing over 8 trillion security events weekly while rapidly advancing AI-driven innovation to protect customers against current and evolving threats.
“Cybersecurity is increasingly a data challenge, shaped by the scale, speed, and diversity of telemetry across modern environments,” said Dan Schiappa, President, Technology and Services at Arctic Wolf. “The Aurora Platform processes over 8 trillion security events each week, and Databricks is part of the foundation that allows us to unify and analyze this data in real time— enabling Arctic Wolf to scale the platform, accelerate AI innovation, and expand our AI-powered SOC to deliver faster threat detection, more reliable protection, and outcomes that security teams can trust.”
In addition, Barracuda Networks transformed its detection engineering, with Databricks enabling a 75% reduction in daily processing and storage costs, real-time alerting in under 5 minutes, and empowering engineers to innovate on new threats instead of managing infrastructure. Palo Alto Networks unified fragmented security data and accelerated AI-powered threat detection features by 3x, resulting in reduced operational costs and real-time security insights across its global cloud ecosystem. SAP Enterprise Cloud Services processes threats faster than ever, reducing engineering time by 80% and increasing rule deployment speed over 5x – resulting in gains in speed, visibility, cost savings and full control over its data.
With this announcement, Databricks is also introducing partner integrations with leading providers, including Abnormal AI, Accenture Federal, ActiveFence, Alpha Level, Arctic Wolf, BigID, DataBahn, DataNimbus, Deloitte, Entrada, Obsidian Security, Panther, PointGuard AI, Rearc, SPLX, Theom, Varonis, and ziggiz, extending the power of Databricks and helping customers drive unified, measurable outcomes in their cybersecurity defense strategies.
“We’re accelerating integration with partners like Databricks to help co-engineer new standards for federal cybersecurity and secure AI.” Stated Amanda Satterwhite, Cyber Practice Lead at Accenture Federal Services. “The fusion of Databricks’ Data Intelligence Platform with our deep federal expertise, delivers an advantage for cyber defenders. This is how we modernize at the speed of AI and win the data war in the federal space.”
“It’s critical for businesses to integrate advanced data intelligence into cybersecurity strategies,” noted Adnan Amjad, US Cyber leader at Deloitte. “Our alliance with Databricks helps enable organizations to fully utilize AI-driven insights, helping them transform their security operations to meet the challenges of today’s digital landscape. Together, we are paving the way for a more secure and resilient future.”