Blue Coat acquires Norman Shark

Blue Coat Systems has announced that it has acquired Norman Shark to help customers to bridge the gap between identification of advanced persistent threats and resolution of those threats. The acquisition unites the industry’s most proven zero-day sandboxing technology with Blue Coat’s leading Advanced Threat Protection solution.
 
Norman Shark brings to Blue Coat a world-class research and malware analysis team, and its sandboxing technology represents the most mature and proven in the industry with the ability to scale to support enterprise requirements. Blue Coat’s acquisition of Norman Shark is an addition to the company’s advanced malware prevention, detection, and analytics capabilities.
 
Greg Clark, CEO of Blue Coat Systems, said, “We have a long history of high-performance web traffic processing, and by combining the industry’s most proven sandboxing technology in line with our market-leading secure web gateway, we are removing an obstacle enterprises have faced up to now. Integration of the Norman Shark technology with the Blue Coat Content Analysis System and Security Analytics Platform delivers a solution that protects against zero-day threats before, during and after an attack by detecting, analyzing, blocking, resolving and fortifying the network against unknown and latent threats.”
 
Unlike point solutions, the new Blue Coat Advanced Threat Protection solution, which integrates the Norman Shark malware analysis technology, provides a lifecycle defense that fortifies the network against unknown and latent threats. The combined advanced threat protection technologies improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the Blue Coat Global Intelligence Network’s ability to dynamically protect all Blue Coat customers.
 
As part of its commitment to securely empowering businesses, Blue Coat continues to execute on its strategy of acquiring strategically important, best-of-breed technologies to deliver Business Assurance Technology solutions.