A group of investors has network – and security firm Blue Coat acquired for $ 1.3 billion. Blue Coat recently came into disrepute, because filtering devices of the company in Syri before and Myanmar would be used.
The group of investors, under the leadership of a private equity company, pay the $ 1.3 billion in cash. The shareholders should the acquisition still needed. Blue Coat delivers software as packetshapers, web filtering and data loss prevention, which allows businesses to use their networks to manage and protect. The company calls itself the market leader in this area.
Recently came to Blue Coat even in speech: filtering devices from the company would be in Syria. The company says at the height of the use of its software in the dictatorship, but Blue Coat would not have worked. Later, researchers discovered that Myanmar Blue Coat products would have used.