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Top 7 Security Acquisitions of 2009

Dec 29, 2009
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Security in 2009 became a huge topic regardless of budget cuts. One thing is for sure there was, and still is, plenty of movement in the security sector. Looking back at 2009, we saw some a number of acquisitions and these would be the top 7 as noted by eWeek.

  1. McAfee Buys MX Logic
  2. Trend Micro Grabs Third Brigade
  3. Cisco Takes ScanSafe
  4. VeriSign Sells Security to AT&T and SecureWorks
  5. IBM Buys Guardium
  6. Rapid7 buys Metasploit Project
  7. M86 Acquires Finjan
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