Symantec will acquire encryption specialist PGP and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for $300 million and $70 million respectively, the company said on Thursday. Both are privately ...

Antivirus giant Symantec is getting serious about encryption. The company announced Thursday that it's buying the encryption-focused firms PGP and Guardian Edge, paying $300 million for PGP and $70 ...

Security software giant Symantec has acquired two email and data encryption companies this morning. Symantec purchased PGP Corporation for approximately $300 million in cash and acquired GuardianEdge ...

"Encryption and privacy is not the same thing," said Nick Savvides, Symantec APAC cybersecurity strategy manager. Encryption is a privacy "enhancing tool", Savvides went on to explain, while privacy ...

Symantec will acquire encryption specialist PGP and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for US$300 million and $70 million respectively, the company said on Thursday. Top tech M&As in ...

Earlier in the week we saw that the market for Secure Email Gateways (SEG) is a mature one with low digit growth expected annually over the coming years. We also saw that it is characterized by a move ...

Symantec announced two new acquisitions–PGP Corporation for approximately $300 million, and GuardianEdge Technologies for around $70 million. Purchasing these two established encryption providers will ...

If Gartner’s recently published Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways is anything to go by, email security is still a major concern for many enterprises. As a result, the market grew by nearly 2% ...

I once co-wrote a book on enterprise email where I likened email encryption to a “sucking chest wound.” That was in 1997, when you had to do all the encryption key management on your own, a daunting ...

Palo Alto, CA -- February 24, 2009 -- Voltage Security, the global leader in information encryption, today released significant enhancements to Voltage SecureMail, known for some of the world's ...

Looking to scoop up BlackBerry enterprise customers, Symantec has acquired NitroDesk — a company it partnered with to deliver its secure email app for Android. Symantec announced the acquisition on ...

End-to-end email encryption is getting more attention as security and compliance concerns mount, but practical use cases are rapidly being eaten away by other technologies. People expect their email ...