WatchGuard Acquires BorderWare

Eric Hal Schwartz8/4/09

WatchGuard Technologies, a Seattle-based network security company has acquired Toronto-based e-mail and Web security developer BorderWare Technologies, according to a press release sent out today. Financial details were not disclosed. WatchGuard, which has hundreds of thousands of businesses in every part of the world as clients, plans on using the technology gained from BorderWare to make its product more comprehensive and thus competitive among computer security providers.

Eric Hal Schwartz was an intern in Xconomy's Seattle office.