McAfee acquires Solidcore

McAfee today announced the acquisition of dynamic whitelisting vendor Solidcore for approximately $33 million. The acquisition advances McAfee's endpoint security and risk management portfolio. Specifically, Solidcore enables McAfee to now provide security for automated teller machines (ATMs), point-of-sale (POS) systems, multifunction printers (MFPs), supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems, as well as mobile and other embedded devices. In addition, it will strengthen McAfee's virtualization solutions, the company said in a news release. — AM
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