Palo Alto signing of the merger agreement to buy two information security company specializing in emerging technologies

US network security industry Palo Alto Networks recently announced that it has signed a merger agreement with two operators, one specializes in container security Twistlock, the other is no server operation (Serverless) security industry PureSec. Twistlock positioned as a comprehensive cloud security platform native, claims to protect the environment of any task, from the host, no container to the server. The company build Cloud Discovery open source tools can help infrastructure, operations and security teams to identify all of the cloud services, and provides vulnerability management for cloud applications and tasks, compliance and operational defense and other security mechanisms, has attracted global 290 companies client. Palo Alto Networks intend to $ 410 million in cash to buy Twistlock, the company's two co-founders Ben Bernstein and Dima Stopel, will join Palo Alto Networks. As PureSec, claims to provide security for the end-Serverless applications. PureSec description, when at the same time enterprise deployment Serverless function, but also responsibility and control of the operating environment to the cloud supplier, although this represents companies need repair infrastructure, but it also means you can not deploy traditional security mechanisms to protect program code for the application.

The PureSec the Serverless security platform that is designed specifically for Serverless applications, it can be tightly integrated into continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) program, providing end to end application security solutions, and support for AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, Cloud Functions with the IBM Cloud Functions such as different platforms, more than 9,000 customers worldwide. PureSec of three co-founders Shaked Zin, Ory Segal and Avi Shulman, also will join Palo Alto Networks, but the two sides did not disclose the amount of the transaction. Palo Alto Networks said the Twistlock and PureSec into the command will allow the company to in all important areas, to provide the most complete and comprehensive cloud security suite to protect modern application security throughout the life cycle.