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Information Security & Compliance

The continuing proliferation of digital assets has created greater vulnerabilities to both internal and external threats. Coupled with a more stringent regulatory environment and privacy concerns, these changes require increasingly sophisticated security solutions.

Current areas of interest:
Physical Integration Mobile
Anti-Tampering, Anti-Piracy Track & Trace
VOIP Authentication
Identity Protection RFID
Current Investments:
image Fidelis Security Bethesda, MD www.fidelissecurity.com

Fidelis Security develops extrusion prevention solutions. The Company's network-based product, DataSafe, monitors outbound data traffic at wireline speeds and can prevent unauthorized data transfers in real time.

V.i. Labs Waltham, MA www.vilabs.com

V.i. Labs is the first company to offer software that combines piracy business intelligence, anti-tampering and reverse engineering technology to recover sales revenue, prevent the theft of software intellectual property and avert reputation damage. V.i. Labs’ patented CodeArmor® platform allows software vendors, embedded system providers and enterprise organizations to harden their applications against theft, gain business intelligence into emerging markets, measure unlicensed use of their software, uncover new revenue streams and increase sales.

Past Investments:
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Guardium (acquired by IBM)Waltham, MA

Guardium, the database security company, develops the most widely-used solution for database activity monitoring, security and auditing, with a blue-chip customer base that includes organizations in all major geographies and industries.

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Network Intelligence (acquired by EMC) Westwood, MA

Network Intelligence develops enterprise security event management and compliance solutions. The Company has developed its appliance-based product to capture, monitor, and manage the events created by networking devices and security applications.

image Concord Communications (NASDAQ CCRD, acquired by CA) Marlboro, MA

Concord Communications was a global provider of Business Service Management (BSM) software that reduced IT downtime, improved capacity planning, and optimized service level management. Built on more than 100 technology patents, Concord's family of world-class solutions addressed the needs of enterprise customers across 17 vertical markets, managed service providers, and both wireless and wireline telecommunications carriers.

image Ganymede Software (acquired by NetIQ) Morrisville, NC

Ganymede provided software that measured response time for networked applications. The Company's initial product (Chariot) was used by network equipment manufacturers and network designers to test new products and to test the effect that new network topologies and protocols would have on network performance. The Company's second product (Pegasus) measured and monitored application response time in live, production networks.

image Indus River (acquired by Enterasys) Acton, MA

Indus River Networks provided Virtual Private Networking (VPN) systems for end-to-end, Internet-based mobile connectivity. Indus River VPN solutions allowed mobile workers to connect to corporate networks through the Internet, thereby incurring only local phone calls and avoiding the requirement to purchase modem banks.

image Business Layers (acquired by Netegrity) Rochelle Park, NJ

Business Layers developed and marketed Provisioning software solutions. Provisioning is the process of allocating digital resources according to business needs.