{"id":49434,"date":"2025-07-31T06:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49434\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T06:34:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T06:34:12","slug":"palo-alto-networks-agrees-to-buy-cyberark-for-25-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/49434\/","title":{"rendered":"Palo Alto Networks agrees to buy CyberArk for $25 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced on Wednesday its intent to acquire identity management and security company CyberArk for $25 billion. The deal, a mix of cash and stock, marks Palo Alto\u2019s entrance into the identity security space, according to a company press release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Palo Alto has been on a shopping spree since Nikesh Arora took over as CEO and chairman of the company in 2018, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/e8e00344-f791-4964-bada-c68de70dbfcf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">according to the Financial Times<\/a>, which estimated the company has spent more than $7 billion on acquisitions since Arora started. The company\u2019s acquisition of CyberArk is the largest to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of Palo Alto\u2019s other acquisitions include: <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/10\/31\/confirmed-palo-alto-networks-buys-dig-security-sources-say-for-400m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dig Security<\/a>, for an estimated $400 million in October 2023; <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/11\/06\/confirmed-palo-alto-has-acquired-talon-cyber-security-sources-say-for-625m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Talon Cyber Security<\/a> for an estimated $625 million in November 2023; and <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2021\/02\/16\/sources-palo-alto-networks-acquired-devops-security-startup-bridgecrew-for-around-200m\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bridgecrew<\/a> for $156 million in February 2021, among others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is one of the largest cybersecurity deals thus far in 2025. The largest deal was <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/03\/18\/google-is-buying-wiz-for-32b-to-beef-up-in-cloud-security\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google\u2019s acquisition of Wiz<\/a> in March for $32 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Palo Alto Networks did not immediately comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks announced on Wednesday its intent to acquire identity management and security company CyberArk&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,38325,38326,11718,15879,14007,23626],"class_list":["post-49434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cyberark","tag-cybsecurity","tag-enterprise","tag-in-brief","tag-mergers-and-acquisitions","tag-palo-alto-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}