Top 5 Acquisitions and Mergers in Cybersecurity for 2024

Cisco is set to acquire cybersecurity and observability firm Splunk in a record-breaking deal worth $28 billion

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Thales, the French aerospace and defense firm, has entered a major deal to acquire US cybersecurity company Imperva for $3.6 billion

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Thoma Bravo, a private equity giant, has completed its $2.3 billion acquisition of identity and access management company ForgeRock

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Proofpoint, a Thoma Bravo subsidiary, has acquired Tessian, a UK-based cloud email security provider, for an undisclosed fee

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CrowdStrike is set to acquire Bionic, an Israel-based company, to expand its Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) Application Security Posture Management (ASPM).

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