Saturday 14 July 2012

McAfee Secure, Securing for Generations

By James Kent


With the gradual advancement of facilities offered by internet more and more people of different age groups are seeking to the internet for fulfilling their needs. And with the use of internet virus infection comes for gratis. People access internet unaware of the fact that their computers might become prone to malicious attacks. But thanks to the number of antivirus software available in the market. They provide a guard to the malware or spam entries to our system. One of such software is McAfee Secure owned by McAfee Company.

Mcafee secure as a company like Nitro Security(Oct 4, 2011) , Sentrigo(March 23, 2011), ten cube(July 29, 2010), Trust Digital (May 25, 2010), MX Logic (July 30, 2009), Solidcore systems(May 15, 2009), Endeavor(January 2009), Secure Computing(September 22, 2008), Reconnex(July 31, 2008),ScanAlert(October 30, 2007), SafeBoot Holding B.V(October 8, 2007), Onigma Ltd(October 16, 2006). On April 2010, a McAfee Secure updated an erroneous virus definition file. This resulted in the removal of svchost.exe file. The pcs that were supported by Windows Xp Service Pack 3 were mainly affected. The machines lost their network access and in some cases entered a reboot loop.

Mcafee Secure mainly stresses on security. They ensure that customers' computers are protected from the latest threats. With the help of Global Threat Intelligence McAfee secure tracks emerging threats, helping them to stay in a step ahead of mischievous people. Due to the increased use of the internet by the young generation, mainly the teenagers, McAfee Secure has introduced Family Protection software. This helps the parents to keep track of their children who are browsing through the net.

With the help of Sentrigo acquisition McAfee Secure could exercise its power on vulnerability management, database activity monitoring, database audit, and virtual patching which ensured the protection of databases without any impact on performance or availability. The acquisition also enabled McAfee to expand its database security portfolio and eject comprehensive, industry-leading solutions to serve the rapidly growing database security market with the ten Cube Acquisition McAfee got the opportunity to make their hold on mobile security services. It also planned for the next generation mobile security. The Trust Digital Acquisition allowed McAfee to extend its services beyond traditional endpoint security and move further on mobile security.

The Safe Boot Acquisition allowed McAfee Secure to deliver endpoint, network, email, data security as well as reduce the risk factor associated. McAfee Secure serves to users in various fields be it home, office or business. Each product line of McAfee Secure has its own individual success. The growth of McAfee Antivirus has outreached the product line provided by other companies. So it wouldn't be wrong if we say that McAfee delivers best security product lines.




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