President of M&A International Discusses IBM Acquisition

IBM recently announced its acquisition of compliance specialist Consul. Here are some of the thoughts of Murray Beach, president of both Boston Corporate Finance (www.bostoncf.com) and M&A International:

"This is a very interesting acquisition and is consistent with a strong trend which we are seeing in the security space," Mr. Beach noted. "Enterprises today have a need to monitor their entire network and all interactions within the network in order to fully comply with regulations and to ensure that only authorized employees and contractors are accessing key information. The type of technology offered by Consul addresses this need and allows for the full monitoring of the network and who is actually using and pulling on corporate information."

"This acquisition by IBM is similar to EMC’s acquisition of Network Intelligence earlier this year," Mr. Beach continued. "Network Intelligence has a very robust solution around this same area of monitoring all “network events”. This type of interaction detail has not been important prior to the advent of the highly regulated business environment, but is now essential.

"Recent research shows that most security breaches occur from within the enterprise versus coming in from outside the enterprise. These tools are designed primarily to keep track of the internal access and allow for this clear data for analysis."

For more information about Boston Corporate Finance, please visit www.bostoncf.com.