CA Technologies to Acquire Privately-held Layer 7 Technologies, a Leader in API Management and Security
22 Avril 2013 - 8:00PM
Business Wire
CA Technologies (NASDAQ:CA) today announced it has signed a
definitive agreement to acquire Layer 7 Technologies, a leading
provider of Application Programming Interface (API) management and
security. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
The acquisition of Layer 7 will enable CA Technologies to manage
and secure the API marketplace with leading technology that
complements its current Identity and Access Management suite,
including CA SiteMinder®, and its technologies focused on DevOps
including the CA LISA® suite. The combination of CA Technologies
and Layer 7 solutions will help organizations to better manage and
secure APIs and deliver more confidently and quickly the cloud,
mobile and composite applications that run today’s business
services.
“The addition of Layer 7 and the synergy across our technologies
will improve how we securely support organizations in their cloud,
mobile and ‘Internet of things’ initiatives,” said Mike Denning,
Security general manager, CA Technologies. “We use APIs every day,
whether accessing flight data from our mobile device, using Google
Maps from a hotel website or making payments online. There are
billions of API calls a day and that number is going to increase
with the proliferation of smart devices, ranging from vehicles,
meters, TVs and other devices, as they start interacting over APIs.
Without API security and management, thousands of business services
are vulnerable to disruption.”
Benefitting numerous key stakeholders in an organization – from
developers and IT architects who need to streamline and securely
accelerate the development of new business services, to the line of
business and the C-suite who demand business services deliver a
superior customer experience to help ensure customer retention and
growth – the acquisition will enable organizations to:
- Securely enable strategic cloud, mobile
and “Internet of Things” initiatives through API security and
management;
- Accelerate service delivery and
increase profitability by externalizing and monetizing existing
application assets that are securely offered via APIs;
- Expand the network of API developers by
offering a convenient API development platform that provides all
the tools necessary to discover, publish and test APIs;
- Govern API activity in order to enforce
SLAs, improve operational performance and monetize Big Data
transactions; and,
- Secure the externalized API business
through authentication, authorization, auditing and threat
protection.
“The API-driven economy has exploded, driven by today’s cloud,
mobile and complex composite applications for business services,”
said Paul Rochester, CEO, Layer 7. “With more than 8,000 public
APIs available at the end of 2012, there is a vast library of
proprietary components and data exposed to the external world that
need to be managed and secured from unauthorized access. API
applications and services are no longer a trend, they are
mainstream. The combination of CA Technologies and Layer 7 is the
best option for enterprises to successfully and securely leverage
all the business benefits APIs can offer.”
Layer 7’s API management and security capabilities are delivered
both on-premise and from the cloud. The company, founded in 2002,
has offices in the US, Canada and Europe.
About Layer 7 Technologies
Layer 7 Technologies provides API building blocks for the new
open enterprise. Nearly 300 leading enterprises, including
some of the world's largest organizations, rely on Layer 7's
award-winning products to open APIs to partners, developers,
mobile apps and cloud services in a secure and scalable way. The
company has been recognized by leading analysts as a leader in API
security and management space, and is the only API Management
vendor to have been named to Deloitte's Fast 500 list of fastest
growing companies in both 2011 and 2012. For more information,
please visit www.layer7tech.com and follow us on Twitter
at @layer7.
About CA Technologies
CA Technologies (NASDAQ: CA) provides IT management solutions
that help customers manage and secure complex IT environments to
support agile business services. Organizations leverage CA
Technologies software and SaaS solutions to accelerate innovation,
transform infrastructure and secure data and identities, from the
data center to the cloud. Learn more about CA Technologies at
www.ca.com.
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