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McAfee To Acquire Cloud Security Firm Skyhigh Networks

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, November 27th, 2017

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McAfee To Acquire Cloud Security Firm Skyhigh Networks

McAfee CEO Chris Young. Photo: McAfee

Moving to complement its current cyber security offerings around endpoint protection, McAfee on Monday said it has agreed to acquire Skyhigh Networks, a leader in software technology that helps provides security between an organization’s on-premise infrastructure and a cloud infrastructure.Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Both companies are privately owned.“Skyhigh is an ideal complement to McAfee’s strategy, one focused on building and optimizing mission-critical cybersecurity environments for the future,” Christopher Young, McAfee’s CEO, said in a blog post discussing…

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