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Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the Series B investment in Secure Code Warrior led by Goldman Sachs, with additional capital from ForgePoint Capital and Cisco Investments. This investment represents the largest ever US investment of its kind in an Australian cybersecurity business. Secure Code Warrior is a leading Application Security vendor that uses gamification techniques to train developers to write secure code. This reduces the risk of security breaches resulting from software vulnerabilities and the subsequent costs of remediation.

“The Digital Enterprise and Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery are two major trends that are placing the application and the developer on the frontlines of the business. Secure Code Warrior helps organizations code more securely while allowing them to maintain productivity and delivery timelines,” said David Campbell, a Managing Director in Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division. Sean Cunningham, Managing Director at ForgePoint Capital added, “Secure Code Warrior solves a fundamental problem for organizations: teaching, measuring and improving secure coding skills during the development process.”

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A, capital raising, and investment advisory services to leading technology companies.  We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the sale of RISC Networks to Flexera. RISC Networks’ cloud migration analytics platform speeds digital transformation. The SaaS-based analytics platform fully discovers IT infrastructure, automatically organizes the information into relevant business services, and prioritizes and costs the applications to be moved to the cloud.

“This acquisition enables us to help our customers chart the most efficient and effective path to the cloud, avoiding costly missteps that can set back their digital transformation,” said Jim Ryan, Flexera President and CEO. “It will allow our customers and partners to identify the best route forward. Adding RISC Networks to our portfolio will also help us build stronger relationships with cloud providers such as AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud, which will offer additional benefits when moving our customers to the cloud.”

RISC Networks’ ability to assess, prioritize, and price which on-premise workloads to move to the cloud is complementary to Flexera’s IT insights and spend optimization. The combined offering provides visibility into software, hardware, cloud assets, and business services.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the sale of NoPassword to LogMeIn. NoPassword’s pioneering solution is designed to provide Human & Hidden Multi-factor Authentication, intelligent Identity Governance & Management, and password-free Single Sign-On. With NoPassword, businesses can prevent cyber attacks and ensure user/employee privacy while maintaining ease of use and immediate access to applications.

NoPassword is the first SSO solution that does not store user credentials or biometrics on a centralized server. NoPassword performs continuous authentication and reduces the need for passwords, which are the source of 85% of cyber attacks. The solution uses factors such as device identity, location, time, and proximity to authenticate users. These hidden factors are authenticated behind the scene, which allows for a continuous and frictionless user experience. NoPassword’s use cases include online authorization, mobile login, Virtual Private Network, Internet of Things, and more.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the sale of SecurityMatters to ForeScout. SecurityMatters is a revolutionary network visibility and threat detection platform designed to monitor and protect critical infrastructure while enhancing the reliability of control systems. The product, SilentDefense, identifies state-sponsored cyber attacks and maintains a proprietary library of over 1,600 threat indicators specific to industrial control systems.

“After partnering with ForeScout for the last year, it became clear that we shared the same vision. Now as a single company, we will be able to accelerate our momentum and create the industry’s first capability to truly segment IT and OT environments,” said Damiano Bolzoni, founder and CEO, SecurityMatters.

“SecurityMatters’ technology and talent will accelerate our success in securing OT, expand our total addressable market and reinforce our solution as the industry’s only, end-to-end agentless device visibility and control platform,” said Michael DeCesare, CEO and President, ForeScout Technologies.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the sale of SS8 to HighBar Partners. SS8 is a leading provider of Lawful Intercept and Monitoring Center platforms. Their technology simplifies compliance for lawful intercept, correlates intelligence, and reconstructs communications to provide actionable insight on subjects of interest. BreachDetect, the enterprise offering, has alerting and network investigation capabilities to improve threat detection and reduce attacker dwell time.

“SS8 provides mission-critical solutions to some of the world’s most important organizations,” said John Kim, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at HighBar Partners. “Their longstanding relationships with Tier 1 Communication Service Providers and Lawful Enforcement Agencies are a testament to both SS8’s leadership and technical expertise.”

“SS8’s market is at a historic inflection point which is leading to numerous growth opportunities for our business: Lawful Intercept moving to Lawful Intelligence, Breach Detection moving to Holistic Threat Detection, and static analysis moving to dynamic machine-based analytics,” said Dennis Haar.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the sale of PhishMe to a private equity consortium. PhishMe is the leading provider of human-driven phishing defense solutions. The acquisition valued the company at $400 million. In conjunction with the transaction, PhishMe has changed its name to Cofense, which reflects collaborative defense. Cofense emphasizes the Company’s broad portfolio of enterprise-wide attack detection, response and orchestration solutions.

“PhishMe was founded to challenge the cliché that people are the weakest link in security,” said Rohyt Belani, CEO and Co-Founder of Cofense. “The Cofense solution set leverages internal employee-generated attack intelligence in concert with purpose-built response technologies to break the attack kill chain at delivery.”

Cybersecurity continues to be a top priority for organizations of all sizes, especially when it comes to user behavior and security awareness training. With private equity backers, Cofense will continue its mission to stop threats faster by combining human intelligence with technology.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the sale of Sqrrl to Amazon Web Services. Sqrrl is the first and only purpose-built Threat Hunting Platform to detect cyber adversaries that have evaded detection or proper prioritization by existing cyber defenses. The Company utilizes linked data, machine learning, UEBA, risk scoring, and Big Data technologies to provide a behavior graph that reveals malicious patterns and anomalies hidden within security datasets.

Accumulo, the technology which underpins the Threat Hunting Platform, was developed by Sqrrl’s co-founders during their time at the NSA. With most companies facing a shortage of internal security skills and resources, Sqrrl helps increase analyst efficiency and reduce attacker dwell time.

This acquisition will add to the portfolio of security services already offered by AWS such as CloudTrail, GuardDuty, Inspector, and Macie. These security services help organizations transition to the Cloud while maintaining visibility and control of their IT estate.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the strategic investment in ReversingLabs by Trident Capital Cybersecurity and JPMorgan Chase. ReversingLabs is a leading unified software provider of Massively Scalable File Analysis, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response, and Accelerated Forensics. The Company enables security teams to prevent and respond to breaches more quickly through static file analysis that identifies threats in near real-time on all content entering the enterprise.

“Advanced threat detection alone is not enough,” said Sean Cunningham, Managing Director at Trident Capital Cybersecurity. “Enterprises increasingly realize that they must adopt new strategies for defense against cyber attackers.”

“JPMorgan Chase is pleased to work with ReversingLabs on its threat hunting and object analysis capabilities, which can empower security teams with new perspectives on past, present, and future threat activity,” said Rick Smith, Head of Private Investments, JPMorgan Chase.

Boston Meridian is an innovative investment bank that provides M&A and capital raising advisory services to leading technology companies. We leverage senior partner expertise to unlock the strategic value of technology and achieve rapid and unparalleled results for our clients.

Boston Meridian is pleased to announce the sale of VeriSign’s (NASDAQ: VRSN) iDefense Security Intelligence Services to Accenture (NYSE: ACN). iDefense is one of the world’s first, and most reputable, threat intelligence organizations providing unmatched context regarding vulnerability exploitation, cyber espionage, cyber crime, and hacktivism. It utilizes a graph database to help enterprises improve their security posture by correlating threats, actors, and incidents so that resources can be allocated immediately and efficiently. The capabilities of iDefense will complement the adversary simulation that Accenture offers (leveraging a previous acquisition, FusionX) and the rest of the cybersecurity solutions within Accenture’s Global Delivery Network.

“There simply isn’t enough time, budget or human resources to defend against every imaginable attack scenario or adversary without intelligent systems and automation. That’s why having the best available threat intelligence is critical to helping us protect our clients’ entire value chains, allowing them to focus on innovation and growth,” said Kelly Bissell, managing director of Accenture Security. “We are confident that the collective capabilities of Accenture Security and iDefense can help organizations better understand where threats are coming from and adjust protections before damage is done.”

Boston Meridian acted as sole financial advisor to VeriSign, Inc.

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