Cyderes Acquires Lucidum To Boost Identity, Agentic Security

The MSSP says the acquisition will provide a ‘data fabric’ approach to unifying identities, privileges and assets within a customer environment.

Cyderes said Tuesday it has acquired a provider of advanced identity security capabilities, Lucidum, in a move to deepen its protection of customer environments and lay the groundwork for greater usage of agentic AI.

Kansas City, Mo.-based Cyderes, a major MSSP and No. 98 on CRN’s Solution Provider 500 for 2025, did not disclose terms of the acquisition deal for Lucidum.

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Lucidum brings 10 employees to Cyderes, which now has a total head count of approximately 900, according to an email from Cyderes.

Lucidum’s technology will provide Cyderes with a “data fabric” approach to unifying identities, privileges, assets and exposures within a customer environment, Cyderes said in a news release.

The result is that Cyderes will benefit from having a centralized and continuously updated view of a customer’s IT environment, enabling managed security decisions that are faster and offer higher accuracy, according to the company.

Ultimately, Lucidum technology will serve as a “backbone” for Cyderes’ capabilities in identity and access management, exposure management and MDR (managed detection and response), Cyderes CEO Chris Schueler said in a quote included in the news release.

Meanwhile, the acquisition of Lucidum also accelerates efforts at Cyderes to utilize agentic AI for securing end customers.

Lucidum’s data fabric will better enable Cyderes to “deploy agentic AI that unifies threat visibility, delivers data-driven response recommendations and supports teams throughout investigation and response,” the company said in the release.

In a recent interview with CRN, Schueler said it’s clear that agentic-powered security “only works with shared context” from across a customer’s environment.

“You have to have context of all the various platforms and all the parts of the threat itself,” Schueler said in the previous interview.