Flexera Software Acquires Secunia
September 2015 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Flexera Software announces the acquisition of Secunia, a provider of Software Vulnerability Management solutions.
Secunia helps IT security and operations teams proactively identify, assess and remediate software vulnerabilities. Secunia products include:
– Vulnerability Intelligence Manager, which gives IT security teams verified, accurate and comprehensive vulnerability intelligence from Secunia Research, along with workflow management, alerts and reporting
– Corporate Software Inspector, which provides IT operations teams multi-platform assessment of software vulnerabilities and cost-effective patch creation and deployment to reduce enterprise software security risks
Secunia’s Software Vulnerability Management solutions are highly synergistic with Flexera Software’s Software License Optimization solution, FlexNet Manager Suite, and underscore the critical relationship between Software Asset Management (SAM) and cybersecurity. Both disciplines require at their foundation the accurate and continual discovery and inventory of software assets within an organization’s environment. Today IT asset management and security teams (and projects) are usually siloed within organizations, increasing the likelihood that security threats will slip through the gap. For instance, discovery and inventory of software assets are critical to both asset management and security teams – but are currently undertaken separately in most organizations.
Flexera Software is changing the game by connecting the strategic dots between Software Asset Management and cybersecurity. And by harnessing the synergies between SAM and Software Vulnerability Management, Software License Optimization takes on even greater critical importance in centralizing core software asset management functions while minimizing software spend, software license non-compliance, and cybersecurity risk. Organizations will be able to leverage asset management insights combined with vulnerability data to address the most relevant cybersecurity threats.
Secunia’s Software Vulnerability Management solutions are also synergistic with Flexera Software’s Software Application Readiness solution, AdminStudio Suite, underscoring IT Operations teams’ need to understand security risks when rationalizing and managing the application portfolio, and to safely, securely and reliably deploy patches without damaging underlying systems. Application Readiness and Software Vulnerability Management business processes can be completely integrated with vulnerability assessment.