January 21, 2016

Data Sheet—Thursday, January 21, 2016

Deals galore in the cybersecurity sector. FireEye, which makes appliances that protect computer networks, will pay at least $200 million to buy threat intelligence company iSight Partners. (Its last major acquisition was incident response specialist Mandiant.) Plus two sizable financing rounds were disclosed Wednesday morning: $50 million for detection company Malwarebytes and $76 million for security management company ForeScout. (Fortune)

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