Cisco Systems agreed to acquire select intellectual property and assets of Cybertrust, including its security intelligence information service, known as Intellishield Alert Manager. Cisco will pay $14 million in cash in exchange for the technology, customer contracts and other components of Cybertrust’s Intellishield Alert Manager.
Intellishield Alert Manager is a web-based security intelligence service, providing daily information to customers about information security threats and IT product vulnerabilities that affect the entire corporate information technology domain. The service is delivered through a continually updated web portal, XML feeds and email subscriptions.
Intellishield Alert Manager will become part of the Cisco MySDN security intelligence Web site. This acquisition further demonstrates Cisco’s commitment to address Internet security issues and will join Cisco’s portfolio of Security Lifecycle Services that assist customers in making their networks secure.
Cisco said the ability to research, understand and advise customers on all types of threats and vulnerabilities is core to its Self-Defending Network strategy.
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- Cybertrust is based in Herndon, Virginia.
Cisco’s 2005 Acquisitions
| CyberTrusts’s Intellishield Alert Manager | web-based security intelligence service, providing daily updates | $14 million | Nov 05 |
| Digital Fairway | IP Telephony Provisioning | $15.25 million | Nov 05 |
| Scientific Atlanta | set-top boxes and video transmission systems | $6.9 billion | Nov 05 |
| Nemo Systems | network memory technology to enhance performance of core switching platforms | $12.5 million | Sep 05 |
| Sheer Networks | network virtualization technology | $97 million | July 05 |
| KiSS Technology A/S | networked entertainment devices | $61 million | July 05 |
| NetSift | deep packet processing | $30 million | June 05 |
| M. I. Secure Corporation | security and VPN solutions | $13 million | June 05 |
| FineGround Networks | Bandwidth optimization appliances | $70 million | May 05 |
| Sipura | VoIP customer premise equipment | $68 million | Apr 05 |
| Topspin Communications | server networking equipment designed for grid and utility computing | $250 million | Apr 05 |
| Airespace | WLAN controllers, Access Points, WLAN Management and Location Software, and Security capabilities | $450 million | Jan 05 |
