McAfee to acquire Solidcore

Whitelisting firm to be assimilated by security giant.

McAfee

has announced the acquisition of whitelisting firm

Solidcore

in a deal reported to be worth a base rate of $33 million, with an additional $14 million on the table if sales targets are reached.

Solidcore

, a privately owned firm founded in 2003 and based in Cupertino, California, provides a range of dynamic whitelisting technologies, with special emphasis on the embedded market, one of the prime areas for whitelisting currently. The technology will be merged into

McAfee

‘s modular line of security offerings alongside those of numerous other specialist firms snapped up of late.

The announcement of the deal is at

McAfee


here

, with a much more detailed statement from

Solidcore


here

. Further reports are at

CNET


here

,

eWeek


here

and

The Register


here

.

Posted on 20 May 2009 by

Virus Bulletin