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Symantec To Acquire Small Firm With Cyber Security Capabilities

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Wednesday, January 13th, 2010

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By Calvin Biesecker Symantec Corp. [SYMC] yesterday said it has agreed to acquire Gideon Technologies, Inc., a small firm that provides federal government and commercial customers with a security management tool for cyber security that meets federal requirements, boosting the company's capabilities in offering an automated, end-to-end solution to improve the cyber situational awareness and related reporting to its customers. Gideon's main product is SecureFusion, an automated situational awareness tool that allows customers to find its computing vulnerabilities and then…

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