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Nov, 2015 : Israeli Security Firm Scooped up by Microsoft
📅 - Microsoft makes another acquisition with the addition of Secure Islands, an Israeli Security Firm. They added the company to their portfolio and made the announcement on Monday (11/9/2015).
This new addition will help with the security side of the business for customers. They will be able to use the best security measures regardless of the storage location.
Secure Islands provides protection, loss prevention and data classification technologies for any type of virtual file. .
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