Dell announced Tuesday at the United States, will acquire a security services company in Atlanta, SecureWorks.

SecureWorks was established 11 years, is a privately held company, mainly to provide security services, security and risk consulting and intelligence threats. SecureWorks claimed in 70 countries with approximately 2,900 customers, of which 15% of “Fortune” 500 companies, including 1,500 bank and credit union. For security reasons the nature of the service provider, SecureWorks, and there is no specific disclosure of customer names. In 2009, SecureWorks acquisition of another security company VeriSign.SecureWorks currently has about 700 employees and estimated annual income of 1.2 billion U.S. dollars.

In addition, SecureWorks has its first-class anti-malware research team is known. Last year, the company involved in the banking system of a Trojan called Origami research, the virus originated in Russia, mainly for theft by hackers user login status.

Dell said the acquisition will expand its number of IT services. It is also HP’s acquisition in October last year, security company ArcSight response. The two sides did not disclose the specific terms of the transaction. Started since last July, Dell has been re-established with SecureWorks sales partnership. It is also a Dell in the past few months in the second acquisition. In the Dec. 13, Dell bought $ 820,000,000, a medical device IT company Compellent.