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McAfee to acquire Skyhigh
Networks to create a global leader
in endpoint and cloud cybersecurity
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cAfee and Skyhigh
Networks have announced
a definitive agreement to
combine businesses, with McAfee
acquiring Skyhigh Networks for an
undisclosed amount. The move
comes less than eight months after
McAfee established itself as one
of the world’s leading pure-play
cybersecurity companies, dedicated
to being the preferred cybersecurity
partner to customers.
Skyhigh Networks and McAfee will
complement each other’s portfolio
and mission, allowing customers
to modernise their cybersecurity
environments and protect their most
valuable asset – data – as it moves
to the cloud. The combination of
McAfee and Skyhigh will establish
the leading company to provide
the cybersecurity architecture of
the future, with endpoint and cloud
as the critical control points, linked
by the security operations centre
with actionable threat intelligence,
analytics and orchestration, and
enabled by an open ecosystem.
Skyhigh Networks CEO Rajiv Gupta
Chris Young, CEO, McAfee
will join McAfee CEO Chris Young’s
leadership team to run McAfee’s
new cloud business unit. Skyhigh’s
existing organisational structure will remain
impediment to, or afterthought of, cloud
generally intact, ensuring continuity for
adoption,” Young stated.
customers and partners. At the same time,
Skyhigh will benefit from McAfee’s global
“They pioneered an entirely new product
scale and integrations to McAfee’s broad
category called cloud access security broker
and deep product portfolio to even better
(CASB) that analysts describe as one of
protect customers.
the fastest growing areas of information
security investments of the last five years –
“Skyhigh Networks had the foresight five
where Skyhigh continues to innovate and
years ago to realise that cybersecurity
lead. Skyhigh’s leadership in cloud security,
for cloud environments could not be an
combined with McAfee’s security portfolio
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strength, will set the company
apart in helping organisations
operate freely and securely to
reach their full potential.”
Skyhigh Networks’ innovative
portfolio provides complete visibility
into content, context, and user
activity across SaaS, PaaS and IaaS
environments; leads the market in
advanced controls and automation
to correct policy violations in cloud
services; leverages data science and
network effects across billions of
events to identify and stop threats;
applies protection to data that
persists in the cloud or outside the
cloud; and delivers an extensible
platform for cloud providers to
enable Skyhigh controls for their
SaaS applications, and enterprises
to enable controls for custom
applications developed in-house.
“Becoming part of McAfee is the
ideal next step in realising Skyhigh
Networks’ vision of not simply
making the cloud secure, but making
it the most secure environment
for business,” Gupta said. “McAfee
will provide global scale to further
accelerate Skyhigh’s growth,
with the combined company
providing leading technologies
and solutions across cloud and endpoint
security – categories Skyhigh and McAfee
respectively helped create, and the two
architectural control points for enterprise
security.” Young posted an open message to
company stakeholders with Gupta doing the
same, each providing additional evidence
of the company’s combined value upon
transaction close, expected shortly after
completing certain regulatory approvals and
satisfying customary closing conditions. n
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