Luxembourg-based Globant acquired Spanish cloud and digital transformation services company Grupo Assa for $62M to broaden its expertise in Life Sciences, CPG, Manufacturing and Logistics. With this acquisition, Globant broadens its expertise in Life Sciences, CPG, Manufacturing and Logistics.
GlobalSCAPE was picked up by HelpSystems to augment its data security business, valuing the company at about $178M, 5.4 times revenue. Globalscape's cloud-based and on-premise solutions that help organizations secure movement, automation, and integration of data both in and out of the cloud would augment HelpSystems' data security business.
In July, Capgemini acquired WNS for $3.5 billion at a 2.8x revenue multiple. WNS provides business process outsourcing services globally, including analytics, customer experience management, finance and accounting and GRC services. It also offers AI-based omni-channel customer engagement software. The acquisition significantly enhances Capgemini’s outsourced IT services capabilities, strengthening its position in global BPO and digital customer engagement.
In August, Bain Capital acquired HSO Group for $1 billion. HSO is a leading Microsoft-partnered digital transformation services provider with expertise in business and AI transformation, cloud and AI application integration and enterprise support. The deal underscores strong private equity interest in scalable IT services platforms, particularly those closely aligned with Microsoft’s enterprise ecosystem.
"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.
"Announcing its second-largest information security (infosec) acquisition, Cisco says it will pay $2.4bn for Duo Security, adding identity and access management to the networking's giant ever-expanding security portfolio. Cisco has now purchased 14 infosec vendors since the start of the decade, making it the most active buyer in the sector in recent years, according to 451 Research's M&A KnowledgeBase.
"With the acquisition of Blue Coat, Symantec will enhance its leadership position to define the future of cybersecurity and set the pace for innovation industrywide." Source: Acquirer press release, 6/12/16.
Blue Coat Systems had been bought out by Thoma Bravo in December, 2011 and then sold to Bain Capital in March, 2015 for $2.4 billion.
"Microsoft acquires Aorato, provider of the Directory Services Application Firewall. Aorato's software monitors network traffic between Active Directory servers and users, looking for patterns of attack and then analyzing traffic details. Its focus on AD makes an obvious acquirer in Microsoft, which could use Aorato as a feature in a more comprehensive security offering or a feature for AD itself." 451 QuickTake.
"The combination of Splunk and Caspida technology revolutionizes the security market by unifying world-class breach response with breach detection. Recent high-profile breaches show virtually all attacks happen with compromised credentials, and automated detection leveraging machine learning is the future for detecting known and unknown threats from insider and external attackers." Source: Acquirer press release,7/9/15.
"The acquisition of Sourcefire adds a team with deep security DNA to Cisco and will accelerate delivery of Cisco's security strategy of defending, discovering, and remediating advanced threats...customers will benefit from continuous security in more places across the network." Source: Acquirer press release, 7/23/13.
