Advus Completes Acquisition of InfoSecure

Advus, a New York-based software company specializing in corporate performance management, has acquired InfoSecure of Chevy Chase, Md., a company specializing in the deployment of massive cloud-based systems for communications and related enterprise applications. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

NEW YORK, April 19, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Advus Corporation, a leading global Innovation and Consulting firm today announces the completion of its acquisition of the lnfoSecure Cloud Center in the Washington D.C. Metro Innovation corridor. This acquisition strongly enhances Advus’ ability to deliver secure cloud-based services to its clients.

The intellectual property

“Afterwards careful due diligence Advus realized that the intellectual property, the human resources and the infrastructure that we are acquiring from InfoSecure will considerably augment our efforts to “cloudify” our services. Our customers have increasingly requested multiple forms of secure cloud-based solutions and we had been relying on several partners to execute these projects. Afterwards some internal analysis we realized that the optimal solution was to create a new business unit with the full-blown capacity to address these projects. The lnfoSecure assets will be an important platform to kick-start Advus Cloud Services with a mature infrastructure and to continue executing our expansion plans,” said Dr. Marcelo Sant’Anna, CEO of Advus Corporation.

One of the key executives who have been retained from InfoSecure is Mr. Hugh Buitano, a product and business development veteran. He has before served at Fortune-500 powerhouses like Xerox and Kodak, as then as start-ups like ContentGuard, a joint-venture between Microsoft and Xerox. ContentGuard pioneered Digital Rights Management research and related security services for protecting content over the internet. Hugh holds a Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from MIT and will serve as head of Advus Cloud Services at Advus Research Group. Hugh will closely work with the Advus executive team on providing secure cloud-based services to its customer base.

About Advus CorporationAdvus is a business and research consulting and development firm that has been assisting Global-500 companies through the use of Strategy and Technology over the past 10 years. Advus Research Group has been providing software engineering and customized IT services to most of Advus clients as part of company engagements. One of ATG main engineering skills is the customization and integration of middleware and open-source stacks for high-performance and scalable industrial-strength solutions. For furthermore information about Advus Corporation, please visit the web site: www.advus.com .

Privately-held company based in Chevy Chase

InfoSecure is a privately-held company based in Chevy Chase, MD, a suburb of the greater Washington D.C. metropolitan area. Since 2002, the company has provided trusted and secure integrated multimedia innovation infrastructure and services to US customers. The Company specializes in the deployment of massive cloud-based BSS systems for communications and related enterprise applications. InfoSecure pioneered the Enterprise Rights Management markets, secure VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) communications, and massive, highly-scalable, virtual network operator infrastructure for turn-key mass-media communications and networking. The Company’s technologies have been used in digital marketing, mobile, e-commerce, banking and government applications requiring agile, secure and highly scalable transactions.

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