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In news from Infoworld, IBM just completed their buyout bid for Internet Security Systems, Inc. Yesterday IBM's shareholders approved a $1.3 billion dollar cash offer for ISS, the Atlanta company whose security services aim to protect networks, servers, desktops and laptops by preemptively blocking Web threats like spam and viruses. IBM announced that ISS will become part of IBM Global Technology Services division and plans to keep their 1,300 employees.

Also on Monday, McAfee announced their security risk management strategy which entails acquiring Onigma for $20 million, an Israel-based data leak prevention vendor, which rounds out their buyouts of Foundstone, Preventsys and Citadel.

McAfee plans to offer an integrated solution that addressed both security and compliance issues. Vimal Solanki, senior direction of marketing, said to CRN Canada, “What’s challenging about these areas is that they’re largely being attacked on an individual basis. There’s little automation between the two, and that’s becoming an inhibitor.”

Onigma uses agent software to prevent confidential data from slipping out (data leaks becoming a key compliance issue) through copy/paste, screen capture, printed documents and USB drives. This provides a more complete solution then a mere gateway approach, which only sees traffic as it’s leaving the network and can’t look within an enterprise.

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