| Описание: | Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Sourcefire 3D System is based on Snort, an open-source intrusion detection engine. The company' s initial growth was funded through four separate rounds of financing raising a total of $56. 5 million from venture investors such as Sierra Ventures, New Enterprise Associates, Sequoia Capital, Core Capital Partners, Inflection Point Ventures, Meritech Capital Partners and Cross Creek Capital, L. P. , a venture fund whose general partner is a wholly owned subsidiary of Wasatch Advisors, Inc. In 2005, Check Point attempted to acquire Sourcefire for $225 million, but later withdrew its offer after it became clear US authorities would attempt to block the acquisition. Sourcefire, Inc develops network security hardware and software. |