Fenwick & West represented Fortinet, Inc. (Nasdaq: FTNT), a global leader in broad, integrated and automated cybersecurity solutions, in its acquisition of ZoneFox Limited, a privately-held cloud-based insider threat detection and response company headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition further enhances Fortinet's existing endpoint and SIEM security business. The integration of ZoneFox's award-winning machine learning-based threat-hunting technology will complement FortiClient endpoint security and provide endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities and will extend FortiSIEM with additional user entity behavior analytics (UEBA) features, both on-premises and in the cloud. More information about Fortinet’s acquisition of ZoneFox can be obtained from the company announcement.
The Fenwick transaction team was led by corporate lawyers David Michaels and Victoria Lupu; and intellectual property lawyers Chris Joslyn and Vanessa Katz.