Trends Report

Brief: Five Questions To Ask After Private Equity Acquires Your Information Security Vendor

Private Equity Is Often A Catalyst For Change; S&R Pros Must Be Prepared To Adapt

November 6th, 2015
Merritt Maxim, VP, Research Director
Merritt Maxim VP, Research Director
With contributors:
Stephanie Balaouras , Tyler Shields , Salvatore Schiano , Peggy Dostie

Summary

Private equity has emerged as a major investing force for enterprise software companies, especially information security vendors of all sizes. This brief provides an overview of the private equity market as well as insight that security and risk (S&R) pros can use to assess their own software suppliers and ensure that a private equity takeover of a security vendor does not weaken customer-facing services.

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