CA is making a play into the data loss prevention market with the purchase of Orchestria. CA plans to integrate DLP with its identity and access management portfolio to help business design better policies to protect data.CA officials announced today the company is making its
third security acquisition in as many months with the purchase of
the Orchestria Corporation.
The deal combines CAs identity and access management portfolio with
Orchestrias DLP (data loss prevention) technology with the goal of
helping organizations control access to data and set policies on its
use based on a users identity and role.
With this acquisition, CA will deliver one of the broadest and most
advanced information security solutions in the market today and address
the demand for a new generation of identity and access management,
said Dave Hansen, corporate senior vice president and general manager,
CA Security Management, in a statement. We are continuing our
aggressive plan to deliver to our customers a comprehensive solution
for identity and access management to help meet their security,
compliance and privacy needs.
This marks the third security-related acquisition CA has made in the
past three months as part of its strategy to deliver integrated,
end-to-end identity and access management-related technologies for its
customers. The company agreed to acquire identity management vendors
IDFocus and Eurekify in October and November, respectively.
In the case of Orchestria, CA is making a play into an already crowded DLP market
that saw several high profile acquisitions in 2007 and 2008. According
to CA, Orchestrias technology is deployed in more than 33 countries
and analyzes, protects and controls more than 100 million electronic
actions every day.
The deal - made for an undisclosed sum - is expected to close by the
end of the month. CA officials said the company plans to keep
nearly all of Orchestrias employees.