Quest Software Monday announced its acquisition of access-control technology vendor Bitkoo. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Quest is pitching the acquisition as a way to provide its customers with a more centralized and nuanced approach for handling authentication in multiple environments: inside the enterprise, including for databases--down to individual rows and columns--and SharePoint installations, as well as for cloud-based applications and Web services.
By Mathew J. Schwartz 20 December 2011
InformationWeek
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