Symantec buys risk-management start-up

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Symantec has acquired Reston, Va.-based 4FrontSecurity, it said on Thursday.

The acquisition is meant to provide Symantec with new tools to help customers take manual, Web-based policy compliance assessments, Cupertino, Calif.-based Symantec said in a statement. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Symantec described it as a small acquisition.

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