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Cisco’s appetite needed feeding again so it’s buying ScanSafe Inc, the 10-year-old software-as-a-service (SaaS) web security house, for $183 million in cash and retention-based incentives.

It’s already got on-premise content security provider IronPort and is supposed to bring together IronPort’s high-performance web security appliance and ScanSafe’s widgetry, which blocks malware and secures the use of the web and messaging.

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