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Network Associates aims for one-stop shop
By Tim Clark
Staff Writer, CNET NEWS.COM
May 12, 1998, 8:20 a.m. PT
Continuing on its buying binge, Network Associates today said it
will acquire a small Canadian security firm called Secure Networks
Incorporated (SNI), which develops tools that scan networks for
security holes.
The acquisition
shores up Network Associates' security offerings as it seeks to become
a one-stop vendor for buying both security and network management
technology.
Financial details of the acquisition were not immediately available.
Earlier this year, Network Associates bought firewall and virtual
private network firm Trusted Information Systems. In late 1997,
the company acquired Pretty Good Privacy. Network Associates
itself was created out of the merger of antivirus firm McAfee
Associates and Network General, which had both security and networking
technology.
SNI's Ballista security auditing scanner will be incorporated into
Network Associates' Net Tools Secure suite. Ballista performs
vulnerability assessment or security scanning, and they check private
networks for security weaknesses that hostile hackers might exploit to
break in.
The best-known name in security scanning is Internet Security
Systems, a publicly traded firm that is concentrating on security
assessment and intrusion detection, a related technology that seeks to
identify hackers after they have broken in.
SNI's staff will join Network Associates' research and consulting
service, an area the company is trying to beef up.
With this acquisition, Network Associates now has security offerings
that include firewalls, virtual private networks, intrusion detection,
encryption, authentication, antivirus, and security scanning. However,
because most of those technologies were bought from others, Network
Associates still must assemble them so they work together in a single
suite.
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