BusinessWeek: Security Startups Aim to Brace Corporate Networks

Small companies at a Stanford University conference showcased new computer network defenses for potential partners

John Stewart, Cisco Systems' chief security officer, spent St. Patrick's Day looking for cybersecurity innovations.

Technology companies that include Cisco (CSCO), Oracle (ORCL), and eBay's (EBAY) PayPal division descended on Stanford University on Mar. 17 for a conference designed to introduce security startups to industry and government officials. Computer network gear maker Cisco was scouting out small technology companies whose products can help steel its own network against what Stewart says has been a barrage of attempted hacking attacks. 

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