Websense to acquire PortAuthority Technologies, Inc

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Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ:WBSN) today announced a definitive agreement to acquire PortAuthority Technologies, Inc., of Palo Alto, Calif., and Ra'anana, Israel, for approximately $90 million in cash. 

 

The planned acquisition will bring together two technology and market leaders in preemptive content security: PortAuthority with its information leak prevention technology and Websense with its ThreatSeeker™ malicious content identification and categorization technology.  The result will be a new best-of-breed security software company with the capabilities to help organizations prevent the unauthorized use or disclosure of confidential data while simultaneously protecting users and data from external malicious threats.

 

Through an existing OEM technology alliance established in September of this year, Websense has been working with PortAuthority to enhance the Websense® Deep Content Control™ technology to deliver comprehensive security solutions that protect users and data from internal and external threats, both known and emerging.

 

Combining Websense's ThreatSeeker malicious content identification and categorization technology with PortAuthority's PreciseID™ data fingerprinting technology into a single integrated offering will allow organizations to manage how confidential data is permitted to leave an organization and under what circumstances. With deep knowledge of Internet destinations, protocols and applications, along with detailed fingerprints of internal data, Websense Deep Content Control technology will help protect information flowing through the network, including outbound, internal and Web-based email; Web postings; instant messaging; file transfers and network printing.  Additionally, both technologies will use an integrated policy engine to give organizations the unique ability to manage and protect information by individual user rather than by device or Internet protocol address.

 

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