Forcepoint joins CASB feeding frenzy with Skyfence buy

Doug Woodburn
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Following the acquisitions of cloud access security brokers Elastica, CloudLock and Palerra, Forcepoint has got in on the act by acquiring one of its OEM partners

Forcepoint has become the latest security vendor to buy its way into the cloud access security broker (CASB) market by acquiring Skyfence from Imperva Networks. Tipped as the IT security market'...

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