IBM announced its $1.3 billion acquisition of Internet Security Services (ISS) Experts are still puzzling and debating about its potential impact on the security market. IBM will use the new ISS resources to make a play to become the security outsourcing vendor for many large enterprises. Analyst: “ISS may help give it some traction with companies that don’t think it has security expertise, but you don’t spend over a billion dollars just for that” Security has become table stakes among IT service providers, analyst says.”]
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