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Hybrid cloud security governance & visibility platform provider Netwrix buys metadata generation & taxonomy management software company Concept Searching.

Cyber resilience & data science technology firm Team8 launches Portshift, an identity-based cloud workload protection & automated application security company.

XM Cyber, an Israeli automated advanced persistent threat (APT) simulation & remediation platform provider, secures $22 million in Series A financing round.

Cybersecurity merger & acquisition (M&A) activity reached its second highest level of the year in October, 2018, a Momentum Cyber reports says.

BlackBerry may acquire Cylance for about $1.5 billion, though buyout talks for the artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity software company could still fall apart, a report says.

Thoma Bravo may acquire Symantec, according to a report about the private equity firm & cybersecurity software provider.

Symantec acquires Javelin Networks & Appthority. The former offers security software designed to protect organizations against Active Directory (AD) attacks; the latter is a mobile application security analysis provider.

Qualys acquires Layered Insight, a provider of cloud-based container security software. Backed by MSSP relationships, Qualys also announces strong Q3 2018 growth.