McAfee Buying Web Security Company
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McAfee will pay $51 million to acquire ScanAlert, which runs a paid service that scans Web sites for security vulnerabilities.
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(InfoWorld) - EMC Corp. will spend US$175 million to acquire security information provider Network Intelligence Corp. The privately held Westwood, Massachusetts, company sells appliances that probe computer networks, providing security and compliance analysis. EMC's latest acquisition, expected to close late Monday, underscores the growing importance of security technology to the storage vendor. Also on Monday, EMC announced that it had completed its $2.1 billion purchase of RSA Security, which will form the basis of a new RSA-branded security division within the company. Former RSA CEO Art Coviello will head up this division, which will absorb the Network Intelligence business unit, EMC said in a statement. Founded in 1996, Network Intelligence has more than 125 employees, according to the company's Web site. With these latest acquisitions, EMC hopes to be able to sell security as part of a broader product portfolio, said Joe Tucci, EMC's chairman, president and chief executive officer. "It's becoming critical that security move beyond a point product solution," he said. Analysts say security companies will find it increasingly difficult to go it alone, with technology giants such as Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc. and IBM Corp. moving quickly to add security features to their broader product platforms. Just last month, IBM said it would spend $1.3 billion to acquire managed security vendor Internet Security Systems (ISS).ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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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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IBM has agreed to buy Watchfire, a developer of web application security auditing tools, and plans to incorporate it into its Rational business unit.
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Antivirus software company McAfee Inc. is buying Foundstone Inc., which makes software for detecting and managing software vulnerabilities, for $86 million in cash, McAfee said Monday.
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McAfee&#39;s antivirus software will be replaced by technology provided by rival Japanese antivirus software vendor Trend Micro. Under the agreement announced by Trend Micro, it will provide antivirus technology to some 187 million Hotmail accounts worldwide.
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Microsoft MSFT.O is working to   hamstring software companies trying to overcome "inherent   weaknesses" in Windows security, rival McAfee Inc. MFE.N   charged in a full-page ad in Monday's Financial Times.
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(InfoWorld) - McAfee plans to deliver more scalable versions of its e-mail and Web security appliances designed for enterprise users. The new products will be available by year's end, according to McAfee CTO Christopher Bolin, who discussed them Tuesday at McAfee's analyst conference in New York. "We've recently just OKed a project to build a very high-end enterprise product, a blade server approach to this problem," he said during a webcast of the event. McAfee already sells Web- and e-mail-filtering appliances called Secure Web Gateway and Secure Messaging Gateway, but these new products will be able to serve a much larger number of clients, McAfee said Wednesday, without disclosing specifics. McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt told analysts that the need for an enterprise-class offering was made clear to him in a recent customer meeting with Citigroup. "We didn't have the ability to cross-sell our network appliances very easily, at least not at the enterprise level," he said. The new products will ship into a marketplace that is in the throes of consolidation. DeWalt said that Web filtering vendorÂ Websense's recent purchase of SurfControlÂ also presented an opportunity for his company in the enterprise market. "It's going to take them seven plus months to bring those two companies together. We can completely disrupt that market," he said. The SurfControl acquisition is expected to close four months after final regulatory approval, which is still pending in the U.K. Another competitor in this space will be Cisco, which is on the verge of completing its $830 millionÂ acquisition of IronPort, a seller of Web- and e-mail-security appliances. McAfee is taking the opposite approach to its closest competitor Symantec, which last year shuttered most of its security appliance operation in order to focus on software development. Still, McAfee may find opportunities in this new sliver of the enterprise market, said Andrew Jaquith, an analyst with Yankee Group Research. "It's a good strategy to try and skim off some revenue that's being taken by others in this space," he said. "I don't see how it can hurt them."
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Antivirus software company McAfee Inc. said on Monday that a new version of its VirusScan Enterprise software contains so-called "intrusion prevention" features that can protect computers from attacks such as buffer overflows, which are often used by viruses, worms and malicious hackers to compromise vulnerable Microsoft Corp. Windows machines.
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McAfee this week plans to announce an add-on for its enterprise antivirus products to offer increased protection against spyware. Users of McAfee VirusScan Enterprise Edition versions 7.1 or 8.0i next month
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CA buys antispyware vendor PestPatrol while McAfee snaps up Foundstone.
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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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Just four months after picking up PreventSys, McAfee brings another security-compliance vendor into the fold with acquistion of Citadel Security Software, following the latter company's delisting by NASDAQ.
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Computer Associates plans to buy security software firm Netegrity, in a deal valued at $430 million (Â£241m). The acquisition will strengthen the firm&#39;s position in the IT security market and builds on last
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Made nervous by the announcement that McAfee&#39;s (MFE:NYSE - news - research) CFO plans to resign, investors on Tuesday sold off shares of the antivirus maker.
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McAfee is preparing versions of its e-mail and Web security appliances designed for enterprise users.
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Computer Associates International Inc., as promised, is back in the acquisition game, scooping up its second computer security company in as many months with an agreement to buy Netegrity Inc.