McAfee Acquires Wireless Security Firm

McAfee announced on June 2, 2005, the acquisition of Wireless Security Corp, which is a privately held company that offers innovative Wi-Fi security solutions to protect home and small business wireless networks from unauthorized access to a wireless network, its contents, or Internet service.

Wireless Security offers subscription-based services that let customers connect computers securely to wireless networks at home or in offices through a remotely-managed authentication service.

"We believe there’s a tremendous market opportunity in the Wi-Fi space," said McAfee senior VP Bill Kerrigan, noting that many home wireless LAN users, as well as small to mid-sized businesses, find it hard to configure authentication and encryption security in their WLAN access points. McAfee envisions a managed service that would handle this for them remotely.

McAfee intends to integrate the Wireless Security software into its own security software as well as offer the WLAN security management software as a stand-alone product.

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