Dell has announced a deal to buy security equipment outfit SonicWALL for an undisclosed cash sum reported to be around the $1-$1.5 billion mark. The significance is that it greatly expands its security profile into the security appliances and Unified Threat Management (UTM) hardware that sell well to the mid-sized companies Dell so covets. The deal will add it to a security portfolio that already includes encryption and cloud security company SecureWorks and vulnerability and patching vendor, Kace, bought in 2010.”]
Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/2131150/sonicwall-buy-signals-dell-s-security-ambitions.html