Websense recently announced to purchase rival SurfControl, in an all-cash transaction valued at $400 million. Websense Operations has given a total £201m, to purchase SurfControl. The mixture of the two firms is aimed at generating an IT security solutions company with the scale and product offering to vie more efficiently with large worldwide security software firms.
Both firms are known for proactive network security software to take off possible phishing, spyware, virus and other threats to IT systems. SurfControl provides 16m users worldwide while Websense serves 25m. The blend of the product offerings, in common with future product development plans, is said to enable Websense to put forward complete content security suites, with coated Web and email security and info leak prevention, optimized by customer size.
