back to article Smartcard firm Gemalto slurps SafeNet in $890m securo-boost deal

Security company Gemalto is buying data protection firm SafeNet. The deal, announced Friday, is valued at $890m and is being financed through cash and existing long-term credit facilities. Once completed the acquisition will add data protection technologies to Gemalto's core authentication products and services (e.g. …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    What will they call it?

    Gemplus + Axalto = Gemalto so Gemplus + Safenet = ?

    1. andy mcandy

      Re: What will they call it?

      they can call it "currently broken" as far as im concerned.

      two weeks now our safenet hosted portal has been randomly logging out administrators trying to administer tokens.

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