Fastly, an edge-to-cloud platform, announced they had finalized a deal to acquire Signal Sciences on Thursday last week. As per the deal, Signal Sciences will receive $200M cash and an additional $557M in Class A stock. Using Signal Sciences’ technology, Fastly plans to create a new security solution, Secure@Edge, to offer scalable and flexible API security.
As you can see in the graph above, security-related acquisitions are increasing for CDN companies; in 2017, the peak year for acquisitions, there were four reported deals closed. The York IE team expects to see more deals similar to the one highlighted in this week’s TOW as companies continue their transition to the cloud.
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