Cisco Acquires OpenDNS for $635 Million

Cisco continues to spend on security, today announcing its intent to acquire San Francisco-based OpenDNS for $635 million. OpenDNS’ domain name system and cloud-based security services bring threat data collected from those platforms to Cisco’s security offerings. “To build on Cisco’s advanced...

Predictive Security Analytics Tool Available Free to Researchers

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Dan Hubbard has lately been a regular face at a lot of big data meet-ups. He’s also often been the lone security face at these meet-ups, which are dominated by analytics, search, social media and advertising professionals. That may change soon for the CTO of DNS and securi...