Last week , and today Symantec announced it has acquired Gideon Technologies. Separately, announced it bought . Financial terms were not disclosed for any of the deals.

Privately-held Gideon Technologies has a product called SecureFusion which supports the Security Content Automation Protocol () for automating security configuration information, vulnerability assessment and patch checking. SCAP has become a in the U.S. government for use with Windows desktops and other computer systems to enable security information sharing in heterogeneous environments.

“Gideon’s SecureFusion is a compliance and vulnerability assessment tool, and we intend to integrate it with our Altiris environment,” says Gigi Schumm, vice president and general manager of Symantec’s public sector division. The goal is to create an end-to-end SCAP-compliant threat identification and remediation workflow for customers.

Symantec expects to complete the Gideon Technologies acquisition by the end of March and plans to keep the company, which has about 15 employees, intact in its Alpharetta, Ga. headquarters.