The phrase "acquisition of security" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to obtaining or gaining security, whether in a financial, physical, or digital sense.
Example: "The acquisition of security measures is essential for protecting sensitive data from cyber threats."
Alternatives: "obtaining security" or "gaining security".
Leading the way was the $255 million December acquisition of security firm PentaSafe by NetIQ.
Intel has officially completed its acquisition of security giant McAfee, according to a release issued today.
With its $7.68 billion acquisition of security giant McAfee, it's clear Intel plans to raise the visibility of its software efforts.
Hewlett-Packard this morning announced that it has now completed the acquisition of security and compliance management company ArcSight for $43.50 per share, or an enterprise value of $1.5 billion.
Q1 Labs will join more than 10 strategic security acquisitions IBM has made in the last ten years and the more than 25 analytics-related purchases, including the recently announced acquisition of security analytics software firm, i2.
To date, ThreatMetrix has seen some signficant sales growth — 300percentt year-on-year — which speaks not just to the company's own product and business development — that includes the December 2011 acquisition of security company TrustDefender — but also the big rise in cybercrime and the fact that online companies are scrambling to plug their holes.
Since the date of first sale was in May 2007, and the filing is marked to come in relation to the acquisition of securities, I believe it pretty much confirms the Google-NNN deal is done.
The new Azure Information Protection service builds on the Azure Rights Management service and the company's recent acquisition of Israeli security firm Secure Islands.
The data analytics service provider Splunk is giving itself a security upgrade with its $350 million cash and stock acquisition of the security automation technology developer, Phantom Cyber.
Google has announced the acquisition of communications security and compliance company Postini for $625million.
Following the acquisition of VeriSign Security by Norton's parent company Symantec, several of VeriSign's features were incorporated into the 2011 edition.
