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Cisco buying security start-up
Monday, 15 March 2004 13:50 ESTCisco Systems plans to buy security start-up Twingo Systems for $5m to bolster network defences at their outer limits. The all-cash deal, announced on Friday, is small by Cisco’s standards but Twingo would provide the networking giant with a key technology to round out its remote access security suite. For the past several months, Cisco has been beefing up its security offering and adding new capabilities to routers.
The company's vision of a 'self-defending' network relies on network-level protection, as well as improved 'end point' security - that is, safeguards at the desktop level. Last year, the company acquired Okena, which identifies and quarantines malicious code on end points to help prevent the spread of viruses and worms. Cisco also began working with several antivirus vendors, including Network Associates, Symantec and Trend Micro, to introduce a product that would check to make sure that a device wasn't infected with a virus before allowing it to connect to a network. Last month, Cisco extended the relationship to include IBM.
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