MCAFEE, SAFEBOOT
McAfee re-entered the encryption market with last October's $350 million acquisition of SafeBoot, and at CeBIT, began touting encryption as part of its product line. SafeBoot's technologies and McAfee's existing data leak prevention offerings have been rolled up into a new Data Protection product business unit, headed by SafeBoot CEO Gerhard Watzinger, who reports to McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt.
SafeBoot, which had just 145 employees worldwide, relied heavily on its strong channel partnerships, and for this reason, was a good fit for McAfee, said Thomas Maxeiner, product manager in the SafeBoot business unit. Later this month, McAfee will announce the integration of SafeBoot's technology into its ePolicy Orchestrator security management tool, according to Maxeiner.
