The popular and powerful company Cisco Systems has been recently announced to hava agreed on acquiring the company called Securent. This company represents a provider of policy management software for enterprises and Cisco Systems has been announced to buy it for the amount of $100 million.

Securent is currently privately held and it has its base in Mountain View, California. According to Cisco Systems, Securent’s distributed policy platform allows the enterprises administers as well as enforce and audit access to applications, data and communications in the heterogeneous IT application environments.  

But how Securent help Cisco? It seems that this company’s software will enable Cisco Systems’ customers to protect the application data regardless of the vendor, or the platform or the operating system while also still allowing access to the content that the workers need. To establish and enforce entitlement at the network level is quite consistent with Cisco Systems’ Services Oriented Network Architecture (SONA), which allows that the policy decisions to be delivered as a network service across the applications and platforms and delivery models.

Securent has currently only 57 employees and has also development operations in India. Cisco Systems will pay no less than $100 million in cash and assumed options. According to Cisco, the acquisition is to end in the second financial quarter of 2008.