IDG invested $2.5m in the web app security testing company in 2007 through one of its corporate venturing subsidiaries.

US-based software security firm Cigital has acquired India-based peer iViz Security, for an undisclosed amount, providing an exit to IDG Ventures, a corporate venturing subsidiary of data and publishing firm IDG.

IDG Ventures invested $2.5m in iViz, which has created clod-based software that can carry out security tests on web applications, in December 2007, a year after it was founded by Indian Institutes of Technology alumni.

Bikash Barai, co-founder of IViz, said: “We grew by 57% last year and we…