Twitter Hired Security Firm Dasient
Web Security Firm Dasient has been acquired by twitter. The companies announced Monday that they have purchased anti-malware startup Dasient. This is not Twitter's first security-related acquisition. In November, the micro-blogging service purchased Whisper Systems, a mobile security startup & later twitter make Android Security open source. "By joining Twitter, Dasient will be able to apply its technology and team to the world's largest real-time information network," co-founder and CTO Neil Daswani, wrote in a blog post.Effective immediately, Dasient will become part of Twitter's "revenue engineering" team. As part of the agreement, Dasient will wind down its business and no longer accept new customers.
Brief About Dasient:-
Dasient, founded in 2008 and based in Sunnyvale, Calif., offers solutions to protect against Web-based malware attacks. In 2009, Dasient launched a Web anti-malware platform used to scan URLs and Web sites for harmful content and prevent the sites from being blacklisted. The following year, the company launched a so-called anti-malvertising service to protect advertising networks from nefarious ads. The company's cloud security technology is used to defend Web sites belonging to banks, e-commerce retailers, and other enterprises.
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