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Cylance, a 7-month-old Internet security startup founded by a former executive VP of McAfee, said it had raised an initial $15 million in venture capital from Khosla Ventures and Fairhaven Capital, becoming the latest startup to pull in new cash. The Irvine, Calif., company now has a payroll around 50, said CEO Stuart McClure, a computer scientist who previously had been at...
ibtimes.com (4 months and 5 days ago)
McAfee is banking on biometric security as the future of authentication, where users rely on voice and facial recognition technology to access their laptops, desktops, and mobile devices.
pcmag.com (1 month and 5 days ago)

A Gartner report about the security software market out Thursday shows that No. 2 ranked McAfee enjoyed the most overall growth last year, Trend Micro slipped but stayed No. 3, and Symantec held onto its top spot with 19.6% of the $19.1 billion market. Gartner’s report looked at 12 market segments that included endpoint security products for both the enterprise and consumer...
pcworld.com (19 days ago)
Intel is introducing new ideas to secure the public cloud, offering a service in which online files can be accessed after users are verified by an authentication scheme including face and voice recognition. McAfee, a unit of Intel, is adding a product called LiveSafe that will offer 1GB of online storage that can be accessed through biometric authentication. LiveSafe has a...
pcworld.com (1 month and 5 days ago)
McAfee offered to buy Stonesoft, a Finnish software firm that would give the Intel software unit access to next-generation network firewalls that are critical to competing in a market McAfee expects to grow beyond $4 billion by 2016.
wsj.com (1 month and 13 days ago)
Aiming to better address the security needs of businesses of all sizes that are facing increasingly complex attacks, McAfee has added two endpoint security suites to its product lineup. The suites, announced Tuesday, combine a wide range of McAfee technologies, including rootkit protection, dynamic whitelisting, risk intelligence, real-time security management and mobile...
pcworld.com (21 days ago)
Filed under: Investing McAfee, a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel , has agreed to acquire network firewall solutions provider Stonesoft, offering $5.90 for each outstanding share of Stonesoft in the all-cash deal, equal to a 128% premium relative to Stonesoft's May 3 closing price. The total value of the acquisition announced today is approximately $389 million. Stonesoft,...
dailyfinance.com (1 month and 13 days ago)
McAfee plans to acquire Stonesoft, a Helsinki-based maker of firewalls, for US$389 million in cash, the companies said Monday.The Intel subsidiary said firewalls are one of the fastest growing products in network security, which it plans to grow, according to a news release. Stonesoft's products will be integrated with McAfee's products, and its technology will stand...
pcworld.com (1 month and 13 days ago)

Security specialist McAfee has pushed facial and voice recognition into the cloud service arena with the launch of its LiveSafe service. The service includes a cloud-based McAfee Personal Locker, that uses biometric scans of the voice and face of the user to ensure that only they get access to the contents. A user's picture and voice recording is taken during activation and...
techradar.com (30 days ago)

In a bizarre YouTube video, McAfee founder John McAfee shows end users how to uninstall his former company's antivirus software. The video, posted Wednesday, makes fun of both McAfee the company and McAfee the eccentric millionaire (a caption...
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