ISS buy UK security software developer

Internet Security Systems is to acquire March Information Systems, the privately held UK developer of security assessment technologies for the Windows NT and Unix platforms. The company is to combine March's technology with its SAFESuite adaptive network security control system. Nasdaq-quoted ISS is paying $4.75 million cash and 120,000 shares of its own common stock for March Information Systems. The UK company's turnover for the year to March 31, 1998 was approximately $2 million, ISS said.® Click here for more stories