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McAfee Buys Risk Management Firm

By BetaNews Staff, BetaNews

June 6, 2006, 2:14 PM

McAfee on Tuesday said it had acquired Preventsys, a company that specializes in security risk management and compliance. The technology will be integrated into McAfee's solutions for large businesses in order to protect customer information and communicate security compliance to executives.

"With Preventsys technology, we can help our customers satisfy regulatory requirements for automated compliance reporting, while leveraging existing McAfee technologies such as McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator and Foundstone," said Ken Gonzalez, McAfee's vice president of corporate development. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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By bourgeoisdude

posted Jun 6, 2006 - 2:19 PM

They must have a patent on something that Microsoft is infringing upon :) No, seriously, why is it Mcafee isn't sueing MS yet? Perhaps I like them more now...

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By templar™

posted Jun 6, 2006 - 10:52 PM

You know, you might just be right about this.

I don't know much about risk management, but this particular Microsoft software seems to have some feature overlap with the one in this article:
http://www.microsoft.com...9e3d&displaylang=en

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