Cisco Completes Securent Acquisition
Securent's software will help enable Cisco customers to protect andsecure valuable application data
November 20, 2007
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SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO)today announced that it has closed the acquisition of Securent, Inc.,a leading provider of policy management software for enterprises. Securent's scalable, distributed policy platform will help allowenterprises to administer, enforce, and audit access to data,communications, and applications in heterogeneous IT applicationenvironments.
Securent's software will help enable Cisco customers to protect andsecure valuable application data regardless of vendor, platform, oroperating system while still allowing ubiquitous access to the contentworkers and their collaborative communities need to be productive. Bydelivering policy from the network, Cisco will simplify entitlementdecisions for all communications, collaboration and other third partyapplications.
Cisco plans to integrate the Securent team and technologies intoCisco's Collaboration Software Group, led by Don Proctor, senior vicepresident. This is acquisition No. 125 for Cisco.
Cisco Systems Inc.
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