Barracuda buys Web security vendor NetContinuum
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(InfoWorld) - Barracuda Networks is getting into the Web application security business. The security vendor has acquired Santa Clara, California's NetContinuum, a vendor of Web firewall appliances. Barracuda already sellsÂ Web filtering devicesÂ that prevent Web surfers from visiting malicious sites, but the NetContinuum products can be used to protect Web sites themselves. With about 80 employees, NetContinuum had been in business since 1999 selling pre-configured security servers, or appliances, that help protect sites from Web-based threats such as cross site scripting or SQL injection attacks. Barracuda, which is best known for its spam filtering products, had actually concluded the purchase in mid-August, but it was not publicly disclosed at the time, said Dean Drako, the company's president and CEO. Drako would not say what Barracuda paid for NetContinuum. The deal gives Barracuda a new type of appliance to sell along side its existing lines of appliances, Drako said. "We believe there's an opportunity to bring Web site protection to a very broad audience of our customer base," he said. Barracuda plans to improve the NetContinuum user interface and eventually sell the appliances as the Barracuda Web App Controller, he said. "We are investing really heavily in making this a really great product." NetContinuum had offices in Santa Clara and India, but the Santa Clara team has already been moved to Barracuda's Campbell, California, headquarters. Barracuda is expanding the team in India and expects to make only "one or two" layoffs as a result of the acquisition, he said. The Web App Controller line will cost the same as NetContinuum's existing products, which sell in the $30,000 to $50,000 range, depending on capabilities.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. has agreed to buy Web application security specialist SPI Dynamics Inc., just two weeks after IBM Corp. announced plans to buy SPI&#39;s rival Watchfire Corp.
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You know I'm no good Anti-spyware firm PC Tools has announced a deal to buy behavioural protection security technology from developer Novatix for an unspecified amount.â¦
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3ComÂ became the latest company to scoop up technology for preventing attacks on computer networks, announcing on Monday that it was acquiring TippingPoint TechnologiesÂ of Austin, Texas, for $430 million in cash.
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Cisco yesterday announced a deal to buy network monitoring firm NetSolve for $11 per share or approximately $128m. The acquisition of NetSolve, which is subject to stockholder and regulatory approvals, is expected to close in Cisco&#39;s Q2 &#39;05.
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Linux distributor Red Hat Inc.  said on Thursday that it had bought Netscape's computer user identification and management technology from America Online Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc.
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NetContinuum, a leading provider of application firewalls, today announced that it is integrating the leading Web-services firewall, Forum Systems&#39; XWall, into its flagship Application Security Gateway product.
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Computer Associates International will acquire identity management software supplier Netegrity in an all-cash transaction valued at $430m (Â£241m).
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British defense contractor BAE Systems PLC said Monday it is buying DigitalNet Holdings Inc., a U.S. maker of secure computer networks and a leading information-technology supplier to the Pentagon.
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LINUX DISTRIBUTOR Red Hat has shelled out $23 million to buy Netscape Communications&#39; Security Solutions unit from AOL. The deal means that Red Hat will get the Netscape Directory Server and Netscape Certificate
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Computer Associates International Inc. will acquire Netegrity Inc. in a $430 million cash deal that will merge the computer security software makers, the companies said Wednesday.
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Perimeter eSecurity is buying SECCAS, which sells e-mail management products to financial institutions.
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Editor&#39;s Summary: Citrix is acquiring VPN provider Net6 for $50 million in a move to expand its presence in the security space.
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Networking leader buys Protego Networks, which makes a line of security-monitoring and threat-management appliances. By Paul Travis.
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Netegrity, Inc., a leading provider of identity and access management solutions, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Computer Associates International, Inc.
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Linux distributor Red Hat Inc. RHAT.O said on Thursday that it had bought Netscape&#39;s computer user identification and management technology from America Online Inc.
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Networking equipment maker Cisco Systems is to buy Perfigo for $74m (Â£40.5m), boosting the company&#39;s efforts to secure network &quot;endpoints&quot; and protect them from worms, viruses and hacking.