SafeNet to Acquire Assured Decisions, LLC
SafeNet to Acquire Assured Decisions, LLC
Acquisition to Strengthen SafeNet’s Cyber Security Strategy with new technology and professional consulting services
BALTIMORE
December 23, 2009
SafeNet, Inc., a global leader in information security, today
announced that it has completed the acquisition of Assured Decisions, LLC, a
leading provider of professional consulting services to the government’s cyber
security community. Assured Decisions will become part of SafeNet’s Cyber Security
group.
“The unique expertise brought to SafeNet by Assured
Decisions enables us to expand our solutions that protect the data within the
U.S. Government’s cyber space,”
said Chris Fedde, SafeNet’s president
and chief operating officer. “Assured Decision’s expertise will be leveraged
throughout SafeNet’s customer base; in addition their product line complements SafeNet’s solutions for government and
commercial customers already purchasing data protection products like Authentication,
Hardware Security Modules (HSM), File and Database Encryption, and High Speed
Encryptors. Combined these products provide data centric solutions within the enterprise, after it leaves the
enterprise and as it is distributed.”
Assured Decisions has been a
leader in providing professional consulting services including engineering
secure solutions that protect electronic information systems and facilitate
secure information sharing since 2001. The company’s MDeX solution is used by
organizations with high assurance information transfer requirements to quickly
and securely exchange information between departments, agencies and allies thereby
protecting national security.
“We are pleased to be joining
SafeNet, an industry leader in
information security,” said Edward Sheehan, Managing Member and President,
Assured Decisions. “Organizations continue to invest in information flow
control, data sharing and ubiquitous data protection. SafeNet’s plans to expand our MDeX solution through
other parts of the government community and global industries that need to
share and route information in an assured and controlled manner is another step
in protecting overall national security.”
About
SafeNet, Inc.
SafeNet is a global leader in information security, founded more than 25 years
ago. The Company protects identities, transactions, communications, data and
software licensing through a full spectrum of encryption technologies,
including hardware, software, and chips. More than 25,000 corporate and
government customers in 100 countries including UBS, Nokia, Fujitsu, Hitachi,
Bank of America, Adobe, Cisco, Microsoft, Samsung, Texas Instruments, the U.S.
Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, the U.S. Internal Revenue
Service, trust their security needs to SafeNet. In 2007, SafeNet was acquired
by Vector Capital, a $2 billion private equity firm specializing in the
technology sector. For more information, visit www.safenet-inc.com.
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