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McAfee Corp. (/ ˈ m æ k ə f iː / MAK-ə-fee), [4] [5] formerly known as McAfee Associates, Inc. from 1987 to 1997 and 2004 to 2014, Network Associates Inc. from 1997 to 2004, and Intel Security Group from 2014 to 2017, is an American proprietary software company focused on online protection for consumers worldwide headquartered in San Jose, California.
The company's flagship firewall product, formerly known as Sidewinder, [4] was renamed McAfee Firewall Enterprise; McAfee sold Sidewinder to Forcepoint in January 2016. [5] Over the years, Secure Computing (and its antecedent organizations) has offered the following major lines of firewall products:
On November 27, 2017, McAfee, an American global computer security software company, announced a definitive agreement to acquire Skyhigh Networks. The deal closed in January 2018. [3] [4] In March 2021, McAfee announced that its enterprise business was acquired by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group (STG) for US $4 billion.
Trellix (formerly FireEye and McAfee Enterprise) is a privately held cybersecurity company that was founded in 2022. It provides hardware, software, and services to investigate cybersecurity attacks, protect against malicious software , and analyze IT security risks.
McAfee Antivirus is an antivirus software created and maintained by McAfee (formerly known as Intel Security, and Network Associates prior to that). Originally marketed as a standalone product, it is also bundled with McAfee Antivirus Plus, [1] McAfee Internet Security, McAfee Total Protection, McAfee McAfee+ Premium, McAfee+ Advanced, McAfee+ Ultimate, and McAfee Business Protection.
In 1998, McAfee co-founded Berg McAfee Companies, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm that has invested in more than twenty companies. In 1998, McAfee co-founded and joined the board of NetStream, one of the first Internet Protocol–based local telephone companies using digital soft-switch technology rather than analog switches.
[23] [24] [25] In October 2015, the company acquired two subsidiaries of Intel, Stonesoft and Sidewinder, for $389 million. [ 26 ] [ 27 ] Stonesoft was a network security product previously known as "McAfee Next-Generation Firewall;" [ 27 ] Sidewinder was a firewall previously known as McAfee Firewall Enterprise.
Network General Corporation was founded in May 1986 by Harry Saal and Len Shustek to develop and market network protocol analyzers. [1] Saal, the company's primary founder, president, and CEO, [2] had previously worked at IBM as a software engineer before founding Nestar Systems, his first startup dedicated to computer networking, in October 1978 with three others, including Shustek, Jim Hinds ...