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Harris Acquires Small Cyber Security Firm

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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

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Harris Corp. [HRS] lrecently said it has acquired Crucial Security, Inc., a small information technology firm that has offensive and defensive capabilities in cyber warfare. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Crucial Security, which is based in Northern Virginia, has 110 employees. Crucial Security's core competencies include enabling customers to launch attacks against their own systems to determine network vulnerabilities; defense against outside attacks using technology such as malicious code reverse engineering to determine the functionality of hostile programs;…

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