ThreatStop Says Infoblox Used Pact to Land Cyber-Security Patent

Vista Equity Partners’ Infoblox Inc. was hit with a lawsuit alleging it used a service-and-software license agreement with ThreatStop Inc. that crumbled in 2016 to obtain confidential information Infoblox then used to secure a threat-intelligence system patent for its network hardware systems.

ThreatStop’s automated technology is used by customers including tech giants Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Microsoft Azure, and Juniper Networks, among others, according to ThreatStop’s website. The US Department of Homeland Security and the US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency also are clients.

Carlsbad, Calif.-based ThreatStop says that “substantially all of the concepts, information ...