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Financial services security software firm Perimeter Internetworking Corp. has hired a dozen engineers to establish a research-and-development center at 60 State Street in Boston, the Milford, Conn., company is expected to announce Tuesday.

Perimeter, which does business as Perimeter E-Security, plans to hire eight more in the next 18 to 24 months, said Chief Marketing Officer Kurt Heinemann.

“We’re making it our headquarters for many of our developers, and the core location for what we’re doing in engineering and development,” Heinemann said.

To make the move, Perimeter cut some offshore engineering resources based in India, Heinemann said. The company employs about 300, globally.

Heinemann declined to discuss revenue numbers, but said Perimeter is seeing growth in encrypted e-mail, vulnerability scanning and firewall intrusion defense — especially where regulation requires reporting and backup related to those services.

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