Mergers and Acquisitions

The acquisition is expected to enhance AI security, accelerate innovations, and simplify operations for the company.

Acronis, which is based in Switzerland, offers the Cyber Protect Cloud platform, which assists managed service providers in safeguarding other organizations' IT infrastructure from cyber threats and backing up their critical data.

This week, it’s time for security money, our quarterly review of the money of security, including public companies, IPOs, funding rounds and acquisitions from the previous quarter. This quarter, Crowdstrike crashes the index, as Thoma Bravo acquires another index company. The index is currently made up of the following 25 pure play cybersecurity pu...

Fortinet said the acquisition is set to incorporate Lacework's "cloud security and cloud-native application protection platform" technologies into its own SASE offering, and "will result in the most comprehensive, full-stack AI-driven cloud security platform available from a single vendor," according to Fortinet CEO Ken Xie.

In this week's enterprise security news, Google is rumored to be considering acquiring Wiz for $23 BILLION ThreatConnect acquires Polarity XBOW and Sola Security are interesting new companies we’ll discuss What does “shared responsibility” actually mean? Palo Alto probably isn’t going to buy your startup Snowflake-related breaches continue getti...

We've made a slight tweak to the news format, only focusing on the most interesting funding and acquisition stories. As always, you can go check out Mike Privette's Return on Security newsletter for the full list of funded and acquired companies every week. This week, we discuss two $100M+ rounds, from Huntress and Semperis. We also discuss NetSPI...

Security analysts say Big Tech companies experiencing slow growth will acquire innovative cybersecurity startups to fuel growth in 2024 and beyond.