Tags mergers and acquisitions
Palo Alto Networks to buy Expanse, which monitors exposed digital assets, for $800 million
The deal comes amid a relatively quiet year for big mergers and acquisitions in cybersecurity.
Cloud company Fastly to purchase app security provider Signal Sciences for $775 million
Fastly says it plans to fold Signal Sciences' technology into a new security product.
Private equity firm to acquire Forescout for $1.4 billion after awkward start
Advent International will purchase outstanding Forescout shares for $29 apiece.
Forescout alleges private equity buyer 'concocted' reasons to avoid a deal as pandemic intensified
Advent International now is negotiating an "alternative" deal, the firm says.
Zoom acquires Keybase to beef up encryption, ease security questions
The plan, Zoom says, is to integrate Keybase’s personnel to build end-to-end encryption throughout the service. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
One private equity firm sells Checkmarx to another for $1 billion
Private equity deals usually involve mature companies, and typically result in restructuring with an eye on another sale in the future.