KEYW Corp. [KEYW] recently said it has acquired the small cyber security technology firm Rsignia, Inc., a deal that completes the company’s effort to bring in house the key technologies that make up its cyber security platform for commercial customers that will be launched next year.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, although a KEYW spokesman said it is immaterial in terms of sales and earnings.
Maryland-based Rsignia provides KEYW with deep packet inspection technology. Previously, Rsignia had been supplying KEYW with the technology.
Now KEYW has more control over technology development and end pricing with the deep packet inspection technology, the company spokesman said.
In 2013, KEYW plans to bring to the market its Project G Cyber Awareness and Response platform, an affordable and scalable solution for applications including monitoring and mitigating malicious internet packet activity, network monitoring and analysis, and forensics capabilities. Project G will be an unclassified solution based on KEYW’s knowledge of how the intelligence community defends its networks.
“Rsignia brings innovative technology and products that are highly relevant to bringing Project G to general availability early next year,” Leonard Moodispaw, president and CEO of KEYW, said in a statement. “Cyber awareness includes the ability to monitor, manage and mitigate internet traffic at its transits enterprises. Project G, integrated with Rsignia’s technology, is designed to help find, fix, and finish the cyber ghosts who are invading and compromising enterprise networks at alarming and ever increasing rates of success.”
Project G is currently in initial commercial trials.
Earlier this fall, KEYW acquired Sensage, which gave it security incident and event management software that the company is also using in Project G.
Rsignia’s founder Darrell Covell and the company’s senior technology officers will remain with the company. Rsignia has about 10 employees. The company has government and industry customers.