Palo Alto Networks (PAN) has described its $156m buy of cloudy DevSecOps biz Bridgecrew as a "key bet" at a time when the world has never been more reliant on off-premises computing.
The buyout was made public early yesterday evening, and Palo Alto said Bridgecrew's "developer-first infrastructure-as-code security platform" sits well with its Prisma public cloud security product.
"Bridgecrew provides a very valuable set of capabilities that our customers are looking for," wrote Palo Alto exec veep Lee Klarich in an update. "Most importantly, [it] opens up an opportunity for us to further engage with the developer community which is so important to the future of cloud security."
The smaller firm's founders will remain with the company after the buyout completes. As for Bridgecrew's open-source emphasis, Palo Alto said it "will continue to ..
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