McAfee buys compliance vendor Onigma

Shakil published 16 Oct 2006, 08:22 in main - 176 views

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The $20 million acquisition was concluded last Wednesday, said Vimal Solanki, senior director of marketing with McAfee.

Onigma's FlowControl software prevents unauthorized data from being transmitted over the network by e-mail or malicious software and can prevent it from being copied to devices attached to the PC, such as USB drives or printers.

McAfee plans to ship its own version of FlowControl, called the McAfee Data Loss Prevention Solution, in the first quarter of 2007. It aims to integrate the software into its ePolicy Orchestrator (EPO) architecture by mid-year, Solanki said. A beta version of the product will be available by the end of 2006.

The acquisition will allow McAfee to offer enterprise users a credible product designed to prevent the kind of data breaches that have dominated headlines since early 2005, when ChoicePoint Inc. revealed that scammers had been able to gain access to the personal information of more than 150,000 U.S. residents, stored on ChoicePoint's computers. ChoicePoint later agreed to pay $15 million in fines and other penalties for its lax security standards.

News source: Computerworld

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