Sourcefire
Sourcefire, Inc. is an American manufacturer of hardware and software in the field of network security. The Sourcefire 3D System is based on Snort, an open source intrusion detection solution.
History
Sourcefire was founded in 2001 by Martin Roesch, the creator of Snort, the Open Source technology, which has become the de facto standard for intrusion detection and prevention. Sourcefire is committed to the development and maintains a close relationship with the Snort user community.
The initial growth of the company was based on four rounds of financing totaling $ 56.5 million, which were funded by venture capital investors such as Sequoia Capital.
In October 2005, Check Point tried to take over Sourcefire. The purchase price was reported to be about 225 million dollars. The purchase failed in early 2006 on the resistance of the American government.
The IPO in March 2007 Sourcefire generated $ 86.3 million. The IPO took place under the Konsortionalführung of Morgan Stanley, supported by Lehman Brothers as co -lead manager and UBS Securities LLC and Jefferies & Company as co-manager.
The acquisition of ClamAV by Sourcefire on 17 August 2007.
Products
The Sourcefire 3D System is an intrusion prevention solution that can be divided into three phases protection for customers - IPS, IPS and Adaptive Enterprise Threat Management ( ETM).
IPS is an intrusion defense based on the Snort detection engine. The Adaptive IPS phase integrates the passive real-time network intelligence Sourcefire RNA (Real -time Network Awareness), which provides automatic threat assessment and causes a significant reduction of false positives and false negatives. ETM - phase to allow the detection of attacks, objectives and the condition of critical systems in one system.
Snort is a GPL -standing, rule-based network intrusion prevention and detection system that combines signature, protocol and anomaly- based methods. Sourcefire expands the functionality of the monitoring network behavior. Sourcefire's RNA maintains and documented throughout the network profiles and the relevant vulnerabilities.
ClamAV ( Clam AntiVirus ) is a standing also under the GPL anti-virus program for Unix-like systems, primarily for the scanning of e -mails on a gateway.
Acquisition by Cisco Systems
On July 23, 2013 Cisco Systems has announced plans to take over Sourcefire, which corresponds to a joint agreement between the two companies. The acquisition is expected to be fully finalized before the end of 2013. Get paid approximately $ 2.7 billion, equivalent to $ 76 per share and thus a premium of more than 20 percent to the closing price on the announcement day. The Sourcefire course complements a gap at Cisco, the example in mobile accesses, current cybercrime trends and also prevent data theft and loss existed. The market position is strengthened by particular in developing complex firewalls and customers get more protection from threats to their Web applications in cloud computing and social media.