One of many big purchases in the industry
While the conditions are confidential, sources have reported the price of hornetscurity procurement, which is expected to be closed in the second half of 2025, which exceeds $ 1 billion. This will make it the largest acquisition of proofpoint, and will be one of the largest cyber security deals in recent years.
Proofpoint is also receiving the benefits of its acquisition strategy of hornetscurity. In March 2024It acquired Vade, AI-based email safety platforms, analyzing more than 2.5 billion messages per day. This helped hornetscurity to increase its identity capabilities for business email agreement (BEC) and Spear Fishing. The company has also increased its platforms through several other acquisitions, including Altospam (Anti-Fishing Software), IT-Seal (Cybercity Training), Zerospam (email safety and anti-spam), and Harkloud (email security).
Proofpoint is also discovering other acquisitions and various funding routes as it allegedly prepares to return to public markets in 2026. Earlier this year, it expanded its global partnership with Microsoft, which increases the threat security and data security using the AI capabilities of Microsoft Azure and using cloud infrastructure.
