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SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - November 19, 2007) - Cisco® (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 allow enterprises to administer,
enforce, and audit access to data, communications, and applications in
heterogeneous IT application environments.
Securent's software will help enable Cisco customers to protect and secure
valuable application data regardless of vendor, platform, or operating
system while still allowing ubiquitous access to the content workers and
their collaborative communities need to be productive. By delivering policy
from the network, Cisco will simplify entitlement decisions for all
communications, collaboration and other third party applications.
Cisco plans to integrate the Securent team and technologies into Cisco's
Collaboration Software Group, led by Don Proctor, senior vice president.
This is acquisition No. 125 for Cisco.
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