After last month’s discussions of a $15.5bn deal came to nothing following due diligence, Broadcom has announced its intention to acquire Symantec’s enterprise security business for $10.7 billion.
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“Simplicity is the name of the game”. Ed Jennings, COO of Mimecast shares his secrets to delivering rapid growth and why “co-opetition” is key for today’s vendor market
The average information security leader works with up to 80 solutions providers at one time. How can businesses simplify their security stack? Is the vendor market becoming over-saturated and how can solutions providers differentiate?
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Carbonite appoints first Chief Revenue Officer
Data protection and cybersecurity company Carbonite has appointed Craig Stilwell as Chief Revenue Officer, a newly created role.
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Keyfactor acquires Redtrust amid plans for European expansion
US-based digital identity company Keyfactor is going international with the acquisition of Spanish firm Redtrust.
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5 things you didn’t know about Jeremy Bevan, VP Global Segments and Industry Marketing at Cisco
1) He’s not your typical marketeer
I didn’t start in Marketing. I’ve been in software development, support services, project and programme management, selling and consulting. When I joined Cisco, I was running EMEA marketing for 5-6 years, and just recently I have stepped into global role. Marketing is extremely tightly linked in with the sales transformation that CISCO is going through. The way that people are buying our products has shifted dramatically, from hardware to software, from on premise to in the cloud… it’s about getting really focused on who are our customers and how are we serving them, from our largest key accounts right through to our smallest customer, serving them in the way that works for them. We’re getting much more segment specific in that regard, thinking about the different classes of customer and what they need from us and how we should work with them.
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Avengers Acquire: Elastic to pay $234M for Endgame’s endpoint security expertise
Elastic has announced that it’ll be acquiring endpoint security company Endgame Inc. for $234 million.
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Imperva to acquire Distil Networks
Imperva announced yesterday that it has signed an agreement to acquire bot management company Distil Networks. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
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Palo Alto Networks to drop ~$460 mil on cloud companies Twistlock and PureSec
Palo Alto Networks has entered into definitive agreements to acquire container security provider Twistlock and serverless security company PureSec.
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Oracle withdraws 60% of its workforce in China amid stringent new cybersecurity laws. And it’s a sign of things to come.
It was the latest saga in a love story gone sour when this month, US supergiant Oracle announced the firing of 900 staff from their China team. The cull, which would cut 60% of the software behemoth’s research and development workforce in the region, shifts the struggle between the two superpowers firmly onto the digital battlefield.
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FireEye announces $250M acquisition of Verodin
FireEye has announced its acquisition of security instrumentation and validation provider Verodin. The transaction, valued at approximately $250 million, closed on Tuesday.
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