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CA Technologies acquires Veracode for $614 million

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CA Technologies has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Veracode for approximately $614 million in cash. The transaction is expected to close in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, and is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals. The combination of CA’s portfolio with privately-held Veracode will establish CA Technologies as a leader in the Secure DevOps market through the automation and scaling of application security testing (AST) to develop and deploy applications … More → Continue reading CA Technologies acquires Veracode for $614 million→

Veracode sells to CA Technologies for $614 million

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CA Technologies Inc. announced Monday it had purchased the security firm Veracode for $614 million in cash. The move comes two years after Veracode reportedly came close to an IPO and was valued around $800 million. Veracode launched a decade ago to offer developers automated security analysis of applications. CA Technologies, based in New York City, is a $4.5 billion behemoth focused mostly on business-to-business deals, keeping it largely out of the public eye. Veracode made headlines recently when Cloudflare, fresh off a high-profile data leak, announced the Burlington, Mass.-based company would independently audit its code. Veracode co-founder Chris Wysopal was part the hacker think tank L0pht, which in 1998 told the U.S. Senate about the cybersecurity disasters looming as the internet approached ubiquity. The punkish group of hackers were the first — aside from members of federal witness protection programs — to go before Congress using psuedonyms (Wysopal was “Weld Pond”). The group […]

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New infosec products of the week​: December 2, 2016

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Trend Micro offers Deep Security as a Service on AWS Marketplace Trend Micro announced the availability of Trend Micro Deep Security as a Service on AWS Marketplace. This new Trend Micro offering enables organizations to combine the benefits of security SaaS with the convenience of consolidated payments through their Amazon AWS bill. With per-hour pricing for added protection of Amazon EC2 instances, Deep Security as a Service provides customers a hosted security management experience with … More → Continue reading New infosec products of the week​: December 2, 2016→