Silicon Valley cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks plans to bolster its ability to protect customers by acquiring Expanse, a company with expertise in monitoring the internet for exposed assets that could be ripe for cyberattacks. The $800 million deal, which Palo Alto Networks expects to close sometime before the end of February, is geared toward boosting the company’s security operations center (SOC) product called Cortex. Expanse’s strength is mapping and managing the digital attack surfaces of companies, governmental agencies and other organizations. The acquisition comes during a relatively quiet year for bigger deals involving cybersecurity companies, after a rush of activity toward the end of 2019. Palo Alto Networks says San Francisco-based Expanse’s technology will help it secure parts of networks that can get overlooked when customers modernize their IT — a process that has only accelerated as more businesses and government agencies move operations to the cloud and maintain large teleworking […]
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