CrowdStrike splashes $96m on US security startup

Nima Green
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Purchase of Preempt Security is only second acquisition for the 10 year old vendor

CrowdStrike is set to snap up US-based startup Preempt Security for a cool $96m. The purchase would be just the second M&A deal in the endpoint vendor's ten-year history, the first being Payload...

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