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VMware acquires security firm Determina




In a research note analyzing the deal, Gartner analyst Neil MacDonald says he expects VMware to integrate Determina's Memory Firewall technology into its existing products, including the ESX hypervisor, and to stop selling the Determina products as standalones. Determina's technology is unique in the HIPS market, as it is designed to protect the operating system and applications by preventing malicious code from abusing memory, which is typical of attacks such buffer overflows.

Determina, based in Redwood City, Calif., also has a development lab in Cambridge, Mass., where VMware has its East Coast headquarters. One of Determina's co-founders, Vladimir Kiriansky, whose thesis work at MIT led to the development of the Memory Firewall, previously worked at VMware.

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