Time to ditch Sygate firewall?

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Date: 08/17/05 

Date: 17 Aug 2005 07:06:35 -0700

Symantec to buy Sygate

By Ellen Messmer, Network World
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=4231

Symantec is set to acquire Sygate Technologies, which makes network
access-control and endpoint-protection policy-enforcement products.

Symantec said it initially will keep offering Sygate's line of
policy-enforcement products - which can be used in conjunction with
network equipment from Alcatel, Enterasys, Juniper and Nortel, among
others - to control network access based on policy decisions which may
include anti-virus or patch updates. In January, Sygate joined Cisco's
network admission control programme to support the Cisco-led method of
desktop policy enforcement.

Symantec intends to integrate Sygate Enterprise Protection 5.0, the
most recent version of Sygate's flapship software, into Symantec's
current endpoint-protection products, which include Symantec Client
Security, after the acquisition of Sygate has been completed.

"This will be the primary product area in which we intend to include
SEP 5.0," said Brian Foster, Symantec's senior director of product,
noting that after combining SEP 5.0 and Symantec Client Security, SEP
5.0 will eventually be phased out.

Foster said SEP 5.0 brings a mix of additional host
intrusion-prevention and host control capabilities to the Symantec
Client Security desktop software, which includes personal firewall,
anti-virus and anti-spyware support.

California.-based Sygate, a privately held company, was originally
founded under the name Sybergen Technologies by Chief Technology
Officer Chris Guo with help from venture capital firms that included
Trident Capital, Trinity Ventures and MVC Capital. The company name was
changed to Sygate five years ago, at the time John DeSantis joined as
CEO and president.

Sygate's customer base of 400 enterprises includes Prudential Financial
and Diebold. No specific consolidation plans concerning staff have been
announced and the value of the deal was undisclosed.

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