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Cisco Systems is making an acquisition designed to reinforce its security lineup, the company said Thursday.
The networking giant announced it will pay $74 million in cash for San Francisco start-up Perfigo, a developer of network access control products. The acquisition is expected to close in the second quarter of Cisco's fiscal 2005, which ends in January.
Perfigo's CleanMachines products focus on policy analysis, compliance and access enforcement for PCs. The company's technology fits into Cisco's Network Admission Control (NAC) program, a security architecture that combines virus scanning with network policing to keep attacks from entering the network in the first place.
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