RSA is becoming its own entity again after spinning off from Dell. It seems to be an interesting move that can fuel the company and propel it onto the right trajectory as opposed to being suffocated by big corp oversight (EMC, Dell). Any people in the infosec space have any thoughts on this? Or insights from a similar situation. TC: 150K
Almost always bad for PE acquisition unless there is industry expertise or strategy to do a 1+1=3 with other portfolio companies. Great example is Thoma Bravo, they own a decent portion of a lot of security companies. That being said RIP RSA - it’s being made clear that VMware is the security business for Dell. I’m directly competitive with an RSA product and I can say people smell blood in the water.
Interesting point. I feel like product portfolio heavily favors RSA vs VMware. Not even counting Secureworks as that's a joke on its own. From endpoint to risk, RSA seems like it isn't gonna die anytime soon. From what I've gathered, Dell & RSA never found common ground or were able to leverage each other during the brief tenure together, so this ultimately seems natural and a win win. Dell gets rid of a piece of the mountain of debt, RSA goes off on chasing sunshine and rainbows
And Going to a PE shop. That’s never good.
Can you elaborate?
Layoffs + take on tons of debt = finance for bankruptcy in 5 years