Check Point Acquires FaceTime Database for Application Controls
Software Technologies acquires FaceTime Communications' application classification and signature database. The technology will appear in a new software blade sometime in 2010.
Check Point Software Technologies has acquired FaceTime Communications' application classification and signature database to "add security controls for over 50,000 Web 2.0 widgets and more than 4,500 Internet applications," Check Point announced Nov. 23.
The acquisition, made for an undisclosed sum, is meant to bring more granular controls over applications into Check Point's product line. The company plans to incorporate the technology into a software blade for its gateways in 2010.
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