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Following ServiceNow’s acquisition of VendorHawk in late April Flexera have followed suit with their acquisition this week of Meta SaaS. Clearly this is a market where swift exits for founders and investors is possible.

Flexera said Thursday that it acquired the Switzerland-based software asset management provider, Brainwaregroup.

Founded two years ago, Meta SaaS helps companies better manage their software-as-a-service subcriptions, or "SaaS."

Flexera, the Itasca, Ill.-based software company that makes buying and selling software more transparent, secure and effective, has acquired Austin-based Meta Saas, a move the tech company says will give it an edge over other software asset management suppliers.

Flexera, the Itasca, Illinois-based software company that makes buying and selling software more transparent, secure and effective, has acquired Austin-based Meta Saas, a move the tech company says will give it an edge over other software asset management suppliers.

Flexera, the Itasca, Ill.-based software company that makes buying and selling software more transparent, secure and effective, has acquired Austin-based Meta Saas, a move the tech company says will give it an edge over other software asset management suppliers.

It’s difficult to fight an invisible risk. Intelligence changes the battle, turning invisible threats into an actionable attack plan. The big question for security professionals—with intelligence that creates visibility into software vulnerabilities, can you prevent attacks?

Flexera, the Itasca, Illinois-based software company that makes buying and selling software more transparent, secure and effective, has acquired Austin-based Meta Saas, a move the tech company says will give it an edge over other software asset management suppliers.

Austin-based Meta SaaS, which runs a platform for managing software as a service subscriptions for companies, got acquired by Flexera, a private software company based in Itasca, Illinois.

Flexera, the Itasca, Ill.-based software company that makes buying and selling software more transparent, secure and effective, has acquired Austin-based Meta Saas, a move the tech company says will give it an edge over other software asset management suppliers.

A two-year-old tech startup that helps businesses manage their subscriptions to software-as-a-service applications has sold to software and security manager Flexera. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.

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86 Percent of Bugs Patchable Within 24 Hours, Says Flexera's Alejandro Lavie

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Following the high-profile legal cases against brewers Diageo and Anheuser-Busch InBev, SAP has brought some clarity over indirect access to its core ERP system

Gartner this week published their first ever research into the SAM Tools marketplace and the results are a mix of surprises and expectations.

The software vulnerability used to breach Equifax last year was harnessed months earlier by a state-sponsored hacking group attempting to breach the U.S. Department of Defense, a senior National Security Agency official said Tuesday.

Nearly 60% of organizations that suffered a data breach in the past two years cite as the culprit a known vulnerability for which they had not yet patched. Half of organizations in a new Ponemon Institute study conducted on behalf of ServiceNow say they were hit with one or more data breaches in the past two years, and 34% say they knew their systems were vulnerable prior to the attack.

Flexera has released Vulnerability Review 2018 – Global Trends, the annual report from Secunia Research at Flexera. The report provides data on vulnerabilities to help companies understand the vulnerability landscape and devise strategies to secure their organizations. Vulnerabilities are a root cause of security issues – errors in software that can work as entry point for hackers, and be exploited to gain access to IT systems.