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Security Money: Crowdstrike Crashes the Index – BSW #360

August 12, 2024

This week, it’s time for security money, our quarterly review of the money of security, including public companies, IPOs, funding rounds and acquisitions from the previous quarter. This quarter, Crowdstrike crashes the index, as Thoma Bravo acquires another index company. The index is currently made up of the following 25 pure play cybersecurity public companies:

Secureworks Corp
Palo Alto Networks Inc
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
Rubrik Inc
Gen Digital Inc
Fortinet Inc
Akamai Technologies, Inc.
F5 Inc
Zscaler Inc
Onespan Inc
Leidos Holdings Inc
Qualys Inc
Verint Systems Inc.
Cyberark Software Ltd
Tenable Holdings Inc
Darktrace PLC
SentinelOne Inc
Cloudflare Inc
Crowdstrike Holdings Inc
NetScout Systems, Inc.
Varonis Systems Inc
Rapid7 Inc
Fastly Inc
Radware Ltd
A10 Networks Inc

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Chief Product Officer at CyberSaint

Independent Consultant & CISO

Jason Albuquerque

Chief Operating Officer at Envision Technologies

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