The acquisition, expected to close by month's end, will be the for CA in as many months and company executives say will enhance CA's products with capabilities to control access and set policies based on a user's identity and role.

"CA is traditionally strong on the identity management side, but we haven't gone down to the data elements before. This acquisition is a great opportunity for CA to tie security all the way back to identity and better determine who has access to what and ultimately drive different access rights to different systems," says , corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA's Security Management business unit.

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CA plans to integrate Orchestria's technology and 84 employees -- based in the United Kingdom. and New York -- into CA's security business and offer the DLP technology stand-alone and integrated into CA's broader suite. Hansen says he will share more details around product integrations and perform demonstrations at the in April.

"This segment of the market is growing fast and the reality is that to solve compliance-driven problems we have to get better at extending security to the data elements," Hansen says. "Orchestria has a holistic solution that goes from the gateway to the desktop and laptop that will really enable CA to broaden its security reach into this market."