An interesting article today about the demographics of firms buying security companies. I came to it by way of Hack in the Box, which referenced analysis of it in CRN, but the actual original piece is from Delling. I recommend the original piece because it’s less expurgated than the republications.
It’s an interesting read and confirms what many analysts have pointed to for a long time about the purchasing dynamics within the security sector. Notably, that big security firms don’t really innovate so much (because they don’t have to) so instead wind up buying the smaller, more-innovative, and more agile firms.
There’s a few really useful graphs that might be interesting to folks. The first one shows who’s buying whom and the second one shows volume of purchases over time. Again, there aren’t too many surprises here, but it is interesting to see this wrapped in some actual numbers.
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