Akamai Technologies, Monday announced that it has acquired Bloxx, a provider of Secure Web Gateway (SWG) technology for protecting enterprises and their employees from Internet threats, in a cash transaction. Bloxx, headquartered in Edinburgh, Scotland is a privately-funded company with 55 employees.
The acquisition is expected to complement Akamai's cloud security strategy for protecting businesses against Internet vulnerabilities. Akamai believes that Bloxx's SWG technology will be instrumental to Akamai's goal of bringing this new suite of offerings to market in 2016.
According to Akamai, as enterprises and their employees increasingly leverage the Internet and adopt SaaS and cloud-based applications to run their business, a growing percentage of corporate network traffic and transactions is now outside of the traditional enterprise zone of control, requiring better and more advanced security protection.
Willie M. Tejada, senior vice president & general manager, Cloud Networking division at Akamai
By adding Bloxx's SWG technologies to our solutions, coupled with the security intelligence that we obtain from our global platform, we believe we are well-positioned to help protect enterprises and their employees from a growing threat landscape.
