Blue Coat Systems has acquired Norman Shark to add zero-day sandboxing technology to its Advanced Threat Protection product range.
After the companies partnered to integrate the Norman Shark technology into the Blue Coat Malware Analysis Appliance, this acquisition will see Norman Shark’s IntelliVM and SandBox emulation technologies added to the portfolio to provide advanced analysis and the ability to analyse any threat type, in any version of any application.
Blue Coat already integrates the Norman Shark technology into its Malware Analysis Appliance to deliver the industry’s most robust sandboxing capability. The news follows the earlier acquisitions of Solera Networks and SSL technology from Netronome.
Greg Clark, CEO of Blue Coat Systems, said: “Integration of the Norman Shark technology with the Blue Coat Content Analysis System and Security Analytics Platform delivers a solution that protects against zero-day threats before, during and after an attack by detecting, analysing, blocking, resolving and fortifying the network against unknown and latent threats.”
Stein Surlien, CEO of Norman Shark, said: “The power of our sandboxing technology combined with Blue Coat’s gateway security and security analytics gives enterprises unmatched advanced persistent threat detection, root-cause analysis and resolution.”
