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Warburg Pincus Nears Deal to Invest in Vista’s Infoblox

Warburg Pincus is investing in Infoblox, a network security firm, in a deal valued at more than $3 billion, including debt, Barron’s has learned.

The cybersecurity industry has seen many smart, connected, next-generation products come on the market recently, along with the services that support them at the recent RSA Conference.

The majority of Information Security teams’ cybersecurity analysts are overwhelmed today analyzing security logs, thwarting breach attempts, investigating potential fraud incidents and more.

Shadow personal IoT voice assistants, Amazon Kindles, smartphone, and tablet devices are proliferating across enterprise networks today, accelerated by last-minute shopping everyone is trying to get done before the end of December.

93% of enterprises are securing remote locations with a centralized approach that rarely scales to secure every endpoint and identity of remote branch locations, leaving an enterprise more vulnerable to a breach.

The October 2016 cyberattack on Dyn should have been an object lesson on how to build Domain Name System infrastructure that would resist a distributed denial of service attack.

Infoblox has grown topline in the mid-teens this past year and surpassed 8,000 customers across the globe with approximately 50 percent market share in DNS, DHCP, and IP address management, (the category known collectively as DDI).

Distributed-denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks have become the scourge of the internet. DDoS attacks use compromised internet devices to generate enormous volumes of data and direct that data at a particular target such as a web server or router.

Cybersecurity is an in-demand field. Growing cyber attacks, demand for safe and secure data, and other concerns mean that companies need professionals to keep their information safe.