[ISN] Sourcefire Buys Cloud Security Firm

From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>
Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 05:26:47 -0600 (CST)
http://www.darkreading.com/security-services/167801101/security/antivirus/229000168/sourcefire-buys-cloud-security-firm.html

By Kelly Jackson Higgins
Darkreading 
Jan 05, 2011

IPS maker Sourcefire today made its first official move to the cloud 
with the $21 million acquisition of cloud-based anti-malware startup 
Immunet.

The publicly held Sourcefire says the deal not only expands its 
real-time detection to the cloud, but also adds to its portfolio 
endpoint protection from advanced persistent threats and other forms of 
client-side attacks. "IPS captures [these attacks] once they are there, 
so combining the two technologies felt like a natural fit," says Greg 
Fitzgerald, senior vice president of marketing at Sourcefire.

It has been a big week for acquisitions in security. Sourcefire's 
purchase of Immunet follows Dell's Tuesday purchase of managed security 
services provider SecureWorks. "One reason this acquisition is 
interesting is that it is another strong sign of the acceleration in 
security market consolidation. There have been two acquisitions this 
week alone, and I'm sure we can expect more acquisition and merger 
announcements as [the] RSA [Conference] approaches," says Andrew Storms, 
director of security operations at nCircle.

Immunet, which has 750,000 users worldwide, launched two years ago with 
a new model of inoculating an entire community of users when one member 
is infected with a new piece of malware. The cloud-based approach since 
has been catching on even among some traditional AV firms given the 
heavy footprint of desktop AV and the infections missed by some of these 
products. 

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