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United States : Blue Coat to Acquire Solera Networks
Publish Date : 24-May-2013
Blue Coat Systems, Inc., the market leader in business assurance technology, today announced that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Solera Networks, the industry's leading provider of big data security intelligence and analytics for advanced threat protection. The Solera DeepSee platform will add industry-leading security analytics and forensic capabilities to the Blue Coat product portfolio, delivering an end-to-end security solution that includes protection, remediation and governance and gives enterprises complete visibility into the content and context of advanced targeted attacks. The acquisition is expected to close within the next 30 days.
"Today's approach to securing the enterprise is missing an essential element – the ability to defend, react and resolve security issues by efficiently mining a very large dataset of network history to gain previously unavailable insights. The future of the industry is moving beyond just blocking malware and stopping targeted attacks to also identifying and resolving the full scope of the attacks in real time," said Greg Clark, CEO at Blue Coat Systems. "Retrospective capture and analytics are now an essential component of modern security architecture, and Solera has pioneered this field, creating a DVR for the network that records traffic and allows customers to easily mine that information."
The combination of Solera's real-time intelligence, security visibility and forensic capabilities and Blue Coat's comprehensive Web-based threat intelligence capabilities now gives businesses the tools to proactively block threats and rapidly identify, respond to and recover from a data breach or incident.
Following the acquisition, these technologies will work together to leverage the industry's most advanced root cause analysis capabilities and the network effect of 75 million users from over 15,000 customers worldwide, including 86 percent of the FORTUNE Global 500. Today, Blue Coat rates more than one billion Web requests per day. This comprehensive Web intelligence combined with the ability of Solera's DeepSee software and appliances to provide an historic record of all network traffic will enable enterprises to efficiently identify and resolve the full scope of advanced threats.
Solera's customers include organizations around the world in many market segments, including the Departments of Energy, Homeland Security and Defense, Hitachi, Qualcomm, Overstock.com, Parsons Corporation and Zions Bank. For these customers, Solera's DeepSee platform helps defend against advanced persistent threats and targeted malware attacks.
