Symantec buys Mi5

["Alex Lanstein" <alanstein () FireEye com>]

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SAN FRANCISCO--Symantec has acquired Web security firm Mi5 Networks and
announced two new security suites at the RSA security conference on Tuesday.

Mi5 sells a Web security appliance that protects corporations against
Web-based threats. Symantec will integrate the technology into its
offerings later in 2009 and offer it as a stand-alone product, Joan
Fazio, director of product marketing for Symantec Endpoint Security,
said in an interview.

The all-cash transaction was completed in March, she said, declining to
disclose the terms.
</snip>

Interesting move... Seems like they could have taken endpoint and
slapped an appliance around it.  I wonder what the $$$ terms were.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10223697-83.html


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Alex Lanstein
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FireEye, Inc.
http://blog.fireeye.com
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