McAfee Acquires SafeBoot: The AV Market Ain't What It Used to Be
McAfee has been expanding its offerings well outside just traditional anti-virus market with moves to expand into the risk management arena and today's announcement of the purchase of SafeBoot is more evidence of the evolution of the security market. IT departments are grappling with a lot more than viruses on the desktop and traditional AV vendors are responding. McAfee is getting into data loss protection and risk management, Symantec acquired Altiris to enhance its offering with a reach into the asset management. This all makes sense. Security is multi-layered and vendors that can help manage those multiple layers will thrive.
Here's the take from InfoWorld, via Yahoo News:
The acquisition of SafeBoot, a security software vendor focusing on encryption and access control, will expand McAfee's risk management services, the company said. SafeBoot focuses on the large-business and mobile security markets....
McAfee plans to integrate SafeBoot's encryption products with its Data Loss and ePolicyOrchestrator management products, McAfee said. Encryption products can be targeted toward all sizes of McAfee customers, from individual users to large businesses, McAfee said.
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