SecurityWeek counted 25 cybersecurity-related mergers and acquisitions announced in July 2024. Its roundup, published August 2, includes eleven highlighted transactions and fourteen more named deals. The count covers announcements—not only acquisitions that had closed—so the status of each transaction matters.
What the July 2024 deal count includes
The figure of 25 is SecurityWeek’s tracker count and reflects its definition of cybersecurity-related M&A, not a universal census of every transaction in the industry. SecurityWeek also reported 178 cybersecurity M&A deals in the first half of 2024, describing that period as the least busy half year since it began tracking deals in 2021. Both figures and the comparison are specific to SecurityWeek’s tracker.
The roundup groups announced transactions with differing statuses: some were described as acquisitions, while others were agreements or intended acquisitions. The table below preserves the status SecurityWeek reported as of August 2, 2024. “Not reported” means the roundup did not specify a value or rationale.
Eleven highlighted transactions
| Buyer / target | Status reported | Consideration reported | Capabilities and stated rationale |
|---|---|---|---|
| 360 Advanced / Aberrant | 360 Advanced announced it had acquired Aberrant. | Not reported. | Aberrant’s Information Security Management Platform was designed to simplify security management for managed service providers (MSPs). |
| Arieli EL / Elron Ventures | Arieli EL acquired a 59.1% stake from Discount Investment Corporation. | $53.2 million. | SecurityWeek described Elron Ventures as a cyber and B2B software holding company with more than $250 million in assets under management and a portfolio of over 19 companies across cybersecurity, B2B software, and health technology. |
| Excite Cyber / CBIT Digital Forensics Group | Excite Cyber intended to acquire the provider. | AUD 4 million (USD 2.67 million). | CBIT provides digital forensics solutions and training. The stated aim was to expand managed services. |
| Exiger / aDolus | Exiger acquired aDolus. | Not reported. | aDolus’s software supply chain risk visibility platform adds software bill of materials (SBOM) generation and binary analysis for software provenance to Exiger’s supply chain visibility. |
| Hiya / Loccus.ai | Hiya acquired Loccus.ai. | Not reported. | Loccus.ai’s deepfake voice detection capability was to be added to Hiya’s Adaptive AI fraud prevention system. |
| Marlink / Diverto | Marlink acquired Croatia-based Diverto. | Not reported. | Diverto provides IT and operational technology (OT) security for enterprises and critical infrastructure organizations. |
| Mimecast / Code42 | Mimecast acquired Code42. | Not reported. | Code42’s insider threat management and data loss prevention capabilities were to expand Mimecast’s human risk management platform. |
| Protect AI / SydeLabs | Protect AI acquired SydeLabs. | Not reported. | SydeLabs specializes in automated attack simulation (red teaming) for generative AI systems, adding a way to test and improve large language model security. |
| Rapid7 / Noetic Cyber | Rapid7 entered a definitive agreement to acquire Noetic Cyber; the roundup did not describe it as completed. | Not reported. | Noetic’s cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM) capabilities were intended to give customers more comprehensive visibility into their environments. |
| SIXGEN / Secure Enterprise Engineering (Secure-EE) | SIXGEN announced its acquisition of Secure-EE. | Not reported. | Secure-EE provides cybersecurity systems engineering, architecture, and operations for national intelligence, defense, and critical infrastructure customers. |
| ThreatConnect / Polarity | ThreatConnect acquired Polarity. | Not reported. | Polarity’s security analyst workflow capabilities were described as a way to contextualize and correlate intelligence for security operations center analysts, incident responders, threat hunters, and threat intelligence teams. |
Fourteen other announced deals
SecurityWeek also named these transactions in its additional-deals list. The roundup did not provide deal values or detailed rationales for them.
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- ACA acquired Encore Compliance.
- Accenture acquired True North Solutions.
- Bell acquired Stratejm.
- Bureau Veritas acquired Security Innovation.
- Consensys acquired Wallet Guard.
- K3 Technology acquired OG2 Network Services.
- Litera acquired FileTrail.
- Neovera acquired Emagined Security.
- Sirius Digitech acquired Coredge.io.
- Sword Group acquired IACS Consulting.
- The 20 MSP acquired Sublime Computer Services.
- ThetaRay acquired Screena.
- Thrive acquired The Longleaf Network.
- Telenor Cyberdefence acquired Combitech AS.
Source and scope
All deal descriptions and statuses here reflect SecurityWeek’s Cybersecurity M&A Roundup: 25 Deals Announced in July 2024, published August 2, 2024. The roundup is the source for the tracker counts as well as the transaction list; the figures should not be read as independently verified, industry-wide totals.
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