SecurityWeek counted 25 cybersecurity-related M&A deals announced in July 2024. Its roundup, published August 2, names 11 highlighted transactions and 14 additional deals. The count and descriptions below reflect SecurityWeek’s tracker and reporting; “announced” does not mean every transaction had closed by that date.
How to read the July 2024 deal count
The 25 figure is SecurityWeek’s tracker count and scope, not an independent census of every cybersecurity transaction. SecurityWeek also reported 178 cybersecurity M&A deals in the first half of 2024, which it described as the least busy half-year since it began tracking deals in 2021. Both figures and the historical comparison are SecurityWeek’s, not universal industry totals. SecurityWeek’s July roundup was published August 2, 2024.
Eleven highlighted transactions
The roundup’s main narrative highlights 11 deals—not ten—alongside the 14 additional deals listed below. Status, consideration, capabilities, and rationale are included where SecurityWeek reported them. “Not reported” means the roundup did not state the detail; it does not establish that no payment or rationale existed.
| Buyer / target | Status and disclosed consideration | Capabilities and reported rationale |
|---|---|---|
| 360 Advanced / Aberrant | 360 Advanced announced it had acquired Aberrant; consideration not reported. | Aberrant’s Information Security Management Platform was designed to simplify security management for managed service providers (MSPs). |
| Arieli EL / Elron Ventures | Acquired a 59.1% stake from Discount Investment Corporation for $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 | Intended acquisition for AUD 4 million (USD 2.67 million); the roundup described a proposed transaction, not a completed purchase. | CBIT provides digital forensics solutions and training. Excite Cyber’s stated aim was to expand managed services. |
| Exiger / aDolus | Exiger acquired aDolus; consideration not reported. | aDolus provides software supply-chain risk visibility. Its software bill of materials (SBOM) generation and binary analysis were to add software provenance capabilities to Exiger’s supply-chain visibility. |
| Hiya / Loccus.ai | Hiya acquired Loccus.ai; consideration not reported. | Loccus.ai’s deepfake voice detection was to add a capability to Hiya’s Adaptive AI fraud-prevention system. |
| Marlink / Diverto | Marlink acquired Croatia-based Diverto; consideration not reported. | Diverto provides IT and operational technology (OT) security to enterprises and critical-infrastructure organizations. |
| Mimecast / Code42 | Mimecast acquired Code42; consideration 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; consideration not reported. | SydeLabs specializes in automated attack simulation, or red teaming, for generative AI systems. The deal added a way to test and improve large language model security. |
| Rapid7 / Noetic Cyber | Rapid7 entered a definitive agreement to acquire Noetic Cyber; consideration not reported. This was an agreement, not a reported completed acquisition. | Noetic provides cyber asset attack surface management (CAASM). The stated fit was more comprehensive visibility into customer environments. |
| SIXGEN / Secure Enterprise Engineering (Secure-EE) | SIXGEN announced its acquisition of Secure-EE; consideration not reported. | Secure-EE provides cybersecurity systems engineering, architecture, and operations for national intelligence, defense, and critical-infrastructure customers. |
| ThreatConnect / Polarity | ThreatConnect acquired Polarity; consideration not reported. | Polarity’s security-analyst workflow capabilities were to contextualize and correlate intelligence for security operations center analysts, incident responders, threat hunters, and threat-intelligence teams. |
Fourteen additional deals named in the roundup
SecurityWeek listed these additional announced transactions. The roundup did not provide deal values or detailed rationales for them in its additional-deals list.
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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.
What the roundup establishes—and what it does not
The article is a single-source snapshot of announcements, published August 2, 2024. It supports the reported count, named parties, and deal descriptions above, but does not independently verify each transaction or establish that every deal had closed. Where the roundup did not state a price, the amount should be treated as undisclosed in this account rather than inferred from the companies’ descriptions.
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