McAfee Buying ScanAlert for $51M
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SAN FRANCISCO -- McAfee Inc., a leading maker of computer antivirus software, said Tuesday it is buying ScanAlert Inc. for $51 million, adding to its Internet security offerings a service intended to help consumers feel safer shopping online.
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IBM , the world's largest  information-technology company, on Wednesday said it agreed to  buy Internet Security Systems Inc.  for $1.3 billion,  continuing an acquisition drive to fuel growth.
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Computer Associates will pay about $430 million in cash to acquire security-software company Netegrity, which makes the SiteMinder access-management application.
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Perimeter eSecurity is buying SECCAS, which sells e-mail management products to financial institutions.
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In a deal that could expand its identity and access management (IAM) portfolio, Computer Associates (Quote, Chart) is buying software security developer Netegrity for $430 million in cash.
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Ending days of speculation, security technology company Symantec Corp. said Thursday, Dec. 16, it will buy Veritas Software Corp., a provider of storage technology, for $13.5 billion in stock.
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Computer Associates (NYSE: CA) announced on Wednesday that it was buying Netegrity (Nasdaq: NETE) at a value of $430 million, or $10.
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Anti-virus specialist Symantec (Quote, Chart) late Thursday announced a deal to acquire privately held security consulting firm @Stake.
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Security software maker announces plans to acquire Hacker Safe transaction certifier in a cash deal worth approximately $51 million.
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Honeywell International Inc., the world&#39;s largest supplier of building controls and thermostats, agreed to buy Novar Plc of the UK for 798 million pounds ($1.53 billion) to expand in security, fire and ventilation systems.
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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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J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. JPM.N on  Friday said it would buy trade-management software provider  Vastera Inc. VAST.O for $129 million to bolster the bank's  logistics and trade-services business.
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Acquisition, which is worth $60 million, is designed to expand McAfee's efforts in the regulatory-compliance market.
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America Online, the world's largest  Internet service provider, plans to offer its 23.4 million U.S.  subscribers a premium anti-virus software service, McAfee  VirusScan Online, for free in November.
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Ingram Micro Inc., the world&#39;s largest distributor of computer products, said Monday that is agreed to purchase Australian technology distributor Tech Pacific for about $493 million in cash, including assumed debt.
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Symantec Corp. SYMC.O, a maker of  security software, on Thursday said it would buy storage  software maker Veritas Software Corp. VRTS.O for $13.5  billion, creating the world's fourth-largest software company.
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Symantec Corp.'s reported interest in acquiring Veritas Software Corp. for more than $13 billion would represent the computer security giant's biggest step yet beyond its core businesses of defending against viruses and thwarting hackers. Investors weren't impressed, though, and Symantec's shares plunged 16 percent.