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Expert comments on Microsoft acquiring LinkedIn for $26.2 billion
June 2016 by
News has broken that Microsoft has acquired LinkedIn, in a deal worth $26.2 billion dollars. Microsoft believes the acquisition will expand the market for both LinkedIn and Microsoft’s Office products, with the software giant having made a significant push over the past few years to make its products more connected.
If you are writing on this breaking news, please see below for comments from Michael Callahan, Vice President at FireMon, on the implications the acquisition may have on the data security at both companies.
"With this acquisition, where millions of peoples’ personal data is involved, users of LinkedIn are naturally going to want to know if their information is safe. When two different environments are integrated, the complexity and security implications increase dramatically. To avoid putting the end user at risk from a data breach or other security incident, one would hope Microsoft has an overarching solution in place that can view the IT environments from a holistic perspective. This will ensure the safe and secure transition so that the end user experience remains positive and we don’t see these companies making headlines again, but for all the wrong reasons."
