---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <[email protected]> Date: Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:39 AM Subject: [ISN] BeyondTrust acquires eEye in union of security vendors To: [email protected]
https://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/050912-beyondtrust-eeye-258887.html By Ellen Messmer Network World May 09, 2012 BeyondTrust, a software firm that specializes in identity and access management for the enterprise, has announced the acquisition of eEye Digital Security, which makes products for vulnerability management, patch remediation, malware defense and configuration compliance. BeyondTrust, based in Carlsbad, Calif., and eEye, in Phoenix, are both privately-held companies and did not disclose financial terms of the arrangement, but they do say the goal is to combine their basic fields of expertise with the intention of creating new products. The company name eEye will eventually be phased out, though company founder Marc Maiffret (one of Network World's "12 White Hat hackers you should know") will take on the role of CTO at BeyondTrust to help define strategy. Jim Zierick, executive vice president of product operations at BeyondTrust, emphasizes that eEye security products, including Blink and Retina, will continue to be supported and developed. "The Retina and Blink brand names will go on," says Zierick, noting that the driver to bring together the two companies is that their strengths are complementary, something that became understood in working together with customers using eEye's security as well as the BeyondTrust PowerBroker line. With the companies now merged for a total of about 250 employees, the potential to build a unified product line combining features is being explored. [...] _______________________________________________ LayerOne Security Conference May 26-27, Clarion Hotel, Anaheim, CA http://www.layerone.org ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
