As of October 7, 2013, Sourcefire, Inc. was acquired by Cisco Systems, Inc. Sourcefire, Inc. provides intelligent cybersecurity technologies worldwide. The company’s network security products include Sourcefire Next Generation Intrusion Prevention System ; Sourcefire Next Generation Firewall; and optional security licenses, including Application Control & Web based applications, as well as URL Filtering. Its network security products also comprise Sourcefire SSL Appliance that decrypts SSL traffic for inspection by network security appliances; and Sourcefire Virtual Appliance that inspects communications between various virtual machines. The company’s Advanced Malware Protection products consist of FireAMP, an advanced malware protection solution; and Advanced Malware Protection for FirePOWER to protect against network malware, advanced persistent threats, and targeted attacks.It also offers Sourcefire Defense Center, which provides application programming interfaces to interoperate with third-party systems, like firewalls, routers, log management, security information event management, trouble ticketing. The company manages open source projects, such as Snort, a traffic inspection engine; ClamAV, an anti-malware product; and Razorback for complex threat detection and protection. It provides customer support, professional, education & certification services. The company serves financial institutions, defense contractors, health care providers, IT companies, telecom companies, and retailers, as well as national, state, and local government agencies. Sourcefire, Inc. markets & sells its appliances, software,services primarily through resellers, distributors, MSSPs, government integrators, & other partners. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Columbia, Maryland.