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SafeNet, Inc. is network security company founded in 1983 and headquartered in Belcamp, Maryland. The company provides network security hardware and software. The company's products are used in wide-area networks, wireless networks, security, anti-piracy, license management, and other applications.[1]

SafeNet customers include large corporations, governments, financial institutions, and original equipment manufacturers. Annual revenues are more than $250 million and the company employs about 1,000 people.<ref>http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/gen/company.html?gcode=37234DBA322948CDAD5C01ECB07CB723 Baltimore Business Journal]</rev>

An aggressive aggregator of companies, SafeNet has acquired, among others, Rainbow Technologies (2003), Beep Science AS (2008), Eracom Technologies AG, (2005). In 2003 it acquired the OEM business of SSH Communications Security Oyj, a Helsinki-based developer of Internet security softwares.

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