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Cisco And Thales Sign Strategic Collaboration On Cybersecurity

Thursday, June 30th, 2016

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Cisco And Thales Sign Strategic Collaboration On Cybersecurity

Officials from Thales and Cisco sign an agreement to collaborate on cybersecurity solutions for French critical infrastructure providers. Photo: Thales.

Cisco [CSCO] and Thales signed a strategic collaboration in cybersecurity that will result in IT security solutions for French critical infrastructure providers, Thales said Wednesday.The companies plan to co-develop “an innovative cybersecurity solution” to better detect and counter-attack cyber threats in real time. The solution will be based on complementing the technology and know-how of both companies, Thales said.Thales highlighted the new joint and integrated solution is set to incorporate all the relevant information on IT threats ranging from networks…

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