"Anti-phishing acquirers strike a second time in three weeks, as a pair of private equity firms, Pamplona Capital Management and BlackRock Capital, acquire Cofense, formerly known as PhishMe. The company is renaming itself to Cofense, to reflect its pursuit of a strategy that goes beyond anti-phishing and security awareness offerings to integrate intelligence in exploits of human behavior with security operations. Coming less than three weeks after Proofpoint's pickup of Wombat Security, the pace of these acquisitions underscores the continued high concern about the problems that human behavior introduces in information security, and the priority given to user awareness and security training. According to recent 451 Research Voice of the Enterprise findings, user behavior is by far the number one ‘pain point’ reported by enterprise security professionals, with the challenges of security awareness training in the top five, while security awareness initiatives were the number one infosec project reported by enterprises in 2017." 451 QuickTake.
