HBGary Acquired by Mantech

HBGary has some good products to handle memory dumps and disk recovery of malware, but their corporate image was severely tarnished with by the hack by Anonymous last year. News came out tonight that HBGary is going to be absorbed by Mantech, a large services and security company that operates in the DC area. A Google image search for HBGary shows mostly Anonymous related images, as is the one below:

From BusinessWire here:

ManTech International Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire the business of HBGary, Inc. of Sacramento, Ca. The transaction, structured as an asset purchase and subject to certain closing conditions, is expected to be completed in March.

HBGary provides a comprehensive suite of software products to detect, analyze, and diagnose Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) and targeted malware. The company has an impressive list of commercial customers in the financial services, energy, critical infrastructure and technology sectors. The business will be an integral part of ManTech’s broad cyber security offering.

I hope that Mantech will be able to integrate the HBGary suite of products, rescue its tarnished image and still keep the great free tools available for use to researchers and cyber incident responders.