Cisco acquires California's IronPort for $830mn

New Delhi, June 26: Software firm Cisco Ltd today said it has completed the buyout of California-based IronPort Systems Inc for 830 million dollars.

''The acquisition of IronPort will accelerate Cisco's growth opportunities. We can provide our customers more services as security threats and demands evolve,'' said Cisco's Security Technology Group Senior Vice President and General Manager Richard Palmer.

This will provide Cisco with a proven business that is already respected as a leader in the messaging and web security space, he added.

IronPort's products and technology enable Cisco to extend its self-defending network strategy including Wide Traffic Inspection capabilities, ensuring a new approach that combines the depth of network-level security with the breadth of capabilities for inspecting e-mail, web and instant messaging traffic.

The evolution of the self-defending network strategy will enable Cisco to provide customers with integrated end-to-end IT security never before offered from a single company, Mr Palmer added.

Cisco's vision for a self-defending network is to incorporate protection into the entire network infrastructure and extend that protection from the network to applications and content.

The addition of IronPort's content security technology allows Cisco to provide Wide Traffic Inspection that integrates network and content analysis to stop the most sophisticated threats and protect all major application protocols, endpoints, and the network itself.

Ironport is the leading provider of e-mail and web security products that provides protection to businesses of all sizes - from small organisations to Fortune 1,000 firms - from spam, spyware, phishing, and other Internet security threats.

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