Earlier this month, San Jose-based Secure Computing Corp. announced plans to acquire privately held messaging security vendor CipherTrust Inc. of Alpharetta, Ga., for $273.6 million in cash and stock. The combined company will sell a range of enterprise gateway security appliances designed to help companies handle threats at the network edge and at the application level. John McNulty, CEO of Secure Computing, and Jay Chaudhry, founder and CEO of CipherTrust, spoke with Computerworld earlier this week about the deal.

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