Under the terms of the agreement, Symantec will purchase PGP for approximately $300 million in cash, and GuardianEdge for about $70 million in cash. The deal is expected to close some time during June ...

Symantec Thursday announced plans to acquire PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies for approximately $370 million, a move that will give Symantec a firm foothold in the encryption technology market.

Antivirus giant Symantec is getting serious about encryption. The company announced Thursday that it's buying the encryption-focused firms PGP and Guardian Edge, paying $300 million for PGP and $70 ...

Symantec channel partners say that the company's acquisition of PGP and GuardianEdge is a move that comes with the required branding to give their own businesses a competitive edge in the encryption ...

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Not long ago, Symantec was going the OEM route for encryption. That all changed in June when the company announced it had closed on the PGP and GuardianEdge acquisitions. This past week, Symantec ...

Symantec will acquire encryption specialist PGP and endpoint security vendor GuardianEdge Technologies for US$300 million and $70 million respectively, the company said on Thursday. Top tech M&As in ...

Symantec is hoping to improve its position in the data encryption market with the $370 million acquisition of two privately held security firms. Symantec on Thursday said it planned to buy PGP for ...

Computer security and backup giant Symantec has bought a pair of encryption companies: GuardianEdge, for $70 million, and PGP, for $300 million. GuardianEdge focuses on endpoint protection, offering a ...

Thirteen days ago on Dec. 25, a security researcher named Nikita Tarakanov uncovered an arbitrary memory overwrite vulnerability in Symantec's PGP Desktop Whole Disk Encryption solution, according to ...

Symantec has announced it will buy encryption vendors PGP and GuardianEdge Technologies to boost its line-up. The security company plans to integrate encryption products from PGP and GuardianEdge into ...