

Netanium, which focuses on SIEM, firewall, and endpoint solutions, and Atlantic Data Security, a cybersecurity support and services company, announce agreement to merge. Palo Alto Networks announces completion of $300 million acquisition of Evident.io. CACI International withdraws $7.2 billion offer to acquire CSRA, opening the door for aerospace and defense contractor General Dynamics to acquire CSRA for $9.6 billion. Financial terms of the deal were undisclosed.

VMware announces acquisition of E8 Security, a behavior analytics company. announces completion of acquisition of Blockchain Dynamics. Opaq Networks, a network security cloud company, announces acquisition of FourV Systems, maker of GreySpark, which provides business intelligence for managing security operations. The market is simultaneously expanding with VC investments into startups, and consolidating with large tech vendors acquiring pure-play cybersecurity companies. Mergers and acquisitions in the cybersecurity space picked back up where they left off at the end of 2017. General Dynamics, Thoma Bravo, and Iron Mountain close the biggest deals in the latest quarter
