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On Monday, it acquired Dasient, a three-year-old Internet security start-up, marking Twitter's second security acquisition in just three months.
Cisco completed its twelfth security acquisition – Cloudlock – this year.
Today's announcement marks the 20th security acquisition IBM has made since 2015 as it aims to redefine the company around security, analytics, cloud and artificial intelligence.
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Other security acquisitions Microsoft has made in Israel include Aorato, Adallom and Secure Islands.
If accurate, the Hexadite acquisition would be one of a series of security acquisitions that Microsoft has made in Israel.
But that is a goal of several security software and hardware firms these days, seen by frequent security acquisitions by Cisco Systems and the recent purchase of NetScreen by Juniper Networks.
Other acquisitions in that vein have included Comptel for software-based data communications for carriers, and a couple of security acquisitions, Nakina Systems and Deepfield.
Momentum Partners' research of the Symantec / Blue Coat transaction highlights the value drivers of buyers-sellers and value drivers of security acquisitions. .
Q1 Labs will join more than 10 strategic security acquisitions IBM has made in the last ten years and the more than 25 analytics-related purchases, including the recently announced acquisition of security analytics software firm, i2.
Indeed, Cisco has made a number of security acquisitions over the years to build up that aspect of its business: two recent deals in addition to OpenDNS include Lancope for $453 million and CloudLock for $293 million.
The company has been reportedly interested in stepping up the pace of its security acquisitions to improve its position in that market — a natural complement to its other business optimising and securing web traffic.
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