As with Intel and its May acquisition of Israeli mapping startup Moovit (which it acquired just weeks ago for $900 million), Microsoft already had a relationship with CyberX: most recently, the two announced a deal in March of this year to integrate Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform into the CyberX ecosystem, so that CyberX customers using Azure could continue to have those services covered by CyberX’s security systems, along with the rest of their on-premises network activity.

Unlike Intel’s strategic relationship, it appears that Microsoft was not among CyberX’s investors: the startup had raised just under $48 million from backers that included large VCs like Norwest Venture Partners, Qualcomm Ventures and Israeli VCs Glilot and OurCrowd, as well as individuals like Facebook’s Stan Chudnovsky and Gigi Levy-Weiss.

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More generally, Microsoft’s been a prolific investor and acquirer in Israel, and recent cybersecurity-specific M&A have included purchasing Aorato, Adallom, Secure Islands and Hexadite.

On the enterprise front, it’s also been making acquisitions big and small, with the most recently before this being the acquisition of a small outfit in the US called ADRM that had built extensive data-modelling maps for different industries (some 75 in all), useful for helping businesses visualise how and where data moves and where tech or human investments might be necessary within an organization. It, too, is becoming a part of the Azure machine.

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