Microsoft Corporation acquired Sybari Software Inc., a transaction completed in June 2005, structured as Definitive agreement; acquisition completed June 21, 2005.
Sybari Software Inc. operates in Security Business and Technology Unit, is based in United States (New York) with global operations. Sybari Software, headquartered in New York with global operations, made enterprise antivirus, anti-spam and content-filtering products (notably Antigen) that protected messaging and collaboration servers for more than 10,000 businesses. Microsoft acquired it to strengthen its enterprise security strategy with multi-engine server-level protection.
Add server-level antivirus/anti-spam with multiple scan engines to address the fact that email attachments were the vector in a large majority of corporate virus incidents.
Enterprise customers face a complex set of attacks through their e-mail and collaboration infrastructure.Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President, Security Business and Technology Unit, Microsoft
Advisory firms were not disclosed for this transaction.