Archive for ‘Acquisitions’

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Jun19

HP buying SPI Dynamics

by Michael Farnum on June 19th, 2007 at 5:09 pm
Posted In: Acquisitions, Security

Another one bites the dust. Vet

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Jan13

A possible reason TippingPoint is not focusing on security in the switch

by Michael Farnum on January 13th, 2007 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Acquisitions, Convergence, Security

Alan Shimel posted about something said by Brian Smith, co-founder of TippingPoint and chief architect of 3Com, in an SC Magazine article. Here’s part of the excerpt Alan used: Smith says he also plans to emphasize the benefits of the bump-in-the-wire network approach to deploying security solutions. Rather than embedding solutions into switchers and routers, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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Dec20

Websense buying PortAuthority

by Michael Farnum on December 20th, 2006 at 8:10 pm
Posted In: Acquisitions, Business of Security, Security

Websense is buying PortAuthority for $90 million. If you are not familiar with them, PortAuthority makes a leak prevention security product. This makes sense in the Websense model, but I like the deal for another reason. This tells me that Websense may be seeing the light finally and is trying to diversify a little so […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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