M & A Firms gives their thoughts on Cisco Purchase

In a January 5th ITPro article, it discusses the recent Cisco acquisition of Ironport Systems. Brad Adams, managing director at Boston Corporate Finance believes that this acquisition is significant.
"Following IBM's acquisition of ISS and EMC's acquisition of RSA and Network Intelligence, in my opinion, Cisco had to do something to "defend its turf" or certainly re-establish its dominance in the network security space," he said.
"While EMC and IBM are approaching eSecurity from slightly different perspectives, they have quickly become major players along with Cisco in the enterprise security landscape. I think this transaction makes these leaders even more competitive - at least for other eSecurity acquisitions."

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