Much Revealed By Security Vendor Acquisition Moves

By Gennifer Biggs, Business Solutions magazine.

With so much buzz in 2010 about cloud and storage issues, I haven't spent much time talking about trends on the security front. Impacting the security landscape in 2010 was a flurry of acquisitions, so let's chat for a moment about what those purchases reveal in terms of sales potential for the channel, especially surrounding Identity and Access Management (IAM).