Cisco Completes Its Purchase Of Cybersecurity Firm OpenDNS
Cisco said it completed the purchase of cybersecurity firm OpenDNS. The $635 million deal, announced in late June (see 1506300068), “will advance Cisco's Security Everywhere approach by adding broad visibility, enforcement, and threat intelligence from the OpenDNS cloud-delivered platform,” Cisco…
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said Thursday. The company began integrating OpenDNS’ platforms Thursday via an application programming interface that will allow customers of both companies’ services to immediately benefit from both the OpenDNS Umbrella service and Cisco’s AMP Threat Grid. “By integrating the OpenDNS platform with Cisco's security solutions, customers will receive greater network visibility and threat intelligence for cloud delivered protection against malicious websites and threats,” David Goeckeler, Cisco general manager-Security Business Group, said in a news release. OpenDNS CEO David Ulevitch is now Cisco Security Business Group vice president, Cisco said.