Netskope

McAfee could look to follow in Symantec and other vendors' acquisition footsteps, picking up a cloud access security broker (CASB) company to bolster its cloud security portfolio. Netskope is one of the few remaining standalone CASB vendors in the space, offering a platform for governance of all cloud usage across an enterprise and adding security capabilities such as DLP, policy enforcement, advanced threat protection, third-party security integrations, and more. Doug Cahill, senior analyst for cybersecurity at the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), said a buy in the CASB space "could make sense" for McAfee's strategy going forward as it would be complementary to existing offerings. Another company McAfee could look to buy in this space is Skyhigh Networks, which is the other major standalone CASB company.