McAfee

By CIO New Zealand staff | Monday, January 11 2010

Security technology company McAfee’s aggressive approach in its acquisition of firms and PC partners seems to have paid off.

Global HQ: Santa Clara, California, US
Website: www.mcafee.com
Global leader: David DeWalt, CEO and president
Local leader: Steve Redman, president, Asia-Pacific
Core activity: Security
Revenue: US$1.6 billion (FY08 ended December 31)
Key customers: Government agencies, business and home
internet users
Employees: 5600

Security technology company McAfee’s aggressive approach in its acquisition of firms and PC partners seems to have paid off. The company, which provides products to secure PCs, networks, mobile phones and websites from threats, was added to the S&P 500 Index at the end of last year. It remains on an acquisition binge in a bid to provide the industry’s most comprehensive security software-as-a-service portfolio. In September it acquired MX Logic, a provider of cloud-based email and web security, email archiving and email continuity services.

In June it completed the acquisition of Solidcore Systems, claiming it now offers the industry’s first end-to-end compliance system. This includes dynamic whitelisting and application trust technology, anti-virus, anti-
spyware, host intrusion prevention, policy auditing and firewall technologies. Gene Orejana