WatchGuard Adds Qiave's QSecure For Web Attack Protection

WatchGuard Technologies is beefing up its security offerings with content-protection software from Qiave Technologies. WatchGuard snapped up the Waltham, Mass., company for $66 million in stock and plans initially to sell Qiave's QSecure software to current WatchGuard customers.. . . WatchGuard Technologies is beefing up its security offerings with content-protection software from Qiave Technologies. WatchGuard snapped up the Waltham, Mass., company for $66 million in stock and plans initially to sell Qiave's QSecure software to current WatchGuard customers.

The software protects Windows NT servers from Web-based attacks launched by hostile traffic disguised as HTTP traffic that gets through legitimate ports in corporate firewalls. The firewalls allow the traffic through because it looks like normal Web traffic visiting public servers.

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