The perimeter is no longer the boundary of enterprise security. Infoblox is building the infrastructure to defend what lies beyond it.
Infoblox, the hybrid multi-cloud networking and security company, has completed its acquisition of Axur, a global provider of AI-powered external threat discovery and digital risk protection — extending its preemptive security capabilities well beyond the enterprise perimeter and into the broader digital ecosystem where modern attacks increasingly originate.
The acquisition adds a category of threat visibility that DNS-based security, Infoblox’s core capability, was not designed to provide: surveillance of the external attack surface, including phishing campaigns, brand abuse, executive impersonation, credential exposure, and malicious infrastructure being assembled across social platforms, mobile app stores, and the dark web — threats that exist entirely outside the networks an organization controls.
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What Axur Brings
Axur’s platform scans more than 40 million URLs daily using multi-modal AI to discover and validate external threats before they can be weaponized. When real abuse is confirmed, the system automates takedowns of attacker infrastructure at scale — compressing the window between threat detection and neutralization that has historically required significant manual intervention.
The integration with Infoblox’s existing infrastructure is designed to close that loop further. Axur’s findings feed directly into Infoblox Threat Defense, enabling the platform to block malicious destinations while takedown processes are simultaneously underway — pinpointing which internal assets are communicating with those destinations and attributing the risk back to the organization, all within minutes of initial discovery.
“Infoblox is extending its leadership in preemptive security by expanding its ability to take down malicious infrastructure before it can be weaponized against enterprises,” said Scott Harrell, President and Chief Executive of Infoblox. “By combining Axur’s external threat discovery, takedown, and threat intelligence with Infoblox’s DNS-based security and intelligence, we expand preemptive protection beyond enterprises’ perimeter and into arenas like social media, app stores, and the dark web.”
Complementary Intelligence, Combined
The strategic logic of the acquisition lies in the complementarity of the two companies’ intelligence perspectives. Infoblox has built its threat intelligence capability around DNS — using domain name system data to detect, understand, and disrupt threats as they traverse enterprise networks. Axur has focused on how threats emerge in the broader digital ecosystem, tracking the formation and deployment of attacker infrastructure across the external internet before it makes contact with any enterprise environment.
Combined, the two perspectives provide a richer context into emerging threats, improve attribution, and enable earlier disruption — a capability increasingly important as attackers use AI to scale phishing, impersonation, and fraud campaigns at a speed and volume that manual processes cannot match.
“Together, we can connect external signals with DNS-level insight to give customers clearer visibility and more confidence in how they respond,” said Dr. Renée Burton, Vice President of Threat Intelligence at Infoblox.
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The Foundation for Continuous Threat Exposure Management
The Axur acquisition also establishes the first building block of a broader capability Infoblox is calling Continuous Threat Exposure Management — an ongoing, measurable approach to reducing risk across an organization’s full attack surface rather than responding to discrete incidents after the fact.
Digital Risk Protection Services, launched as part of the acquisition close, is the first module within Infoblox Exposure Management. Additional capabilities are expected to be introduced in stages over the coming months as integration progresses.
“Becoming part of Infoblox allows us to scale our mission globally and combine external threat intelligence with deep network insight to deliver a more proactive, measurable approach to security,” said Fabio Ramos, Chief Executive of Axur. “This establishes the foundation for managing threats across the full attack surface.”
Infoblox is trusted by more than 6,000 customers, including the majority of Fortune 100 companies. Further details on the integration roadmap will be shared as the process advances.
