CyberArk Software Ltd. announced Thursday that it acquired Zilla Security, a cybersecurity startup specializing in identity governance and administration, for $165 million in cash.

Sets New Standard for End-to-End Machine Identity Security Provides Significant Top-Line Growth Synergies and Expected to be Immediately Accretive to Margins Expands CyberArk’s Total Addressable Market with Complementary Machine Identity Solutions CyberArk (NASDAQ: CYBR), the identity security company, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Venafi, a leader in machine identity management, from Thoma Bravo. This acquisition will combine Venafi’s best-in-class machine identity management capabilities with CyberArk’s leading identity security capabilities to establish a unified platform for end-to-end machine identity security at enterprise scale. Digital transformation and ongoing cloud migration have led to an exponential increase in the number of machine identities, such as workloads, code, applications, IoT devices and containers. The number of machines is rapidly outpacing the growth in their human counterparts, with more than 40 machine identities for every