Comments on: What goes around, comes around

By: StillSecure, After All These Years

StillSecure, After All These Years — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:53:06 +0000

Economic crisis makes for strange bedfellows

Last week when McAfee bought Secure Computing Pete Lindstrom did a nice job of detailing comings and goings and incestuous relationships at play. With the announcement today of Citgroup buying up the banking assets of Wachovia at distressed prices, I

By: Pete Lindstrom

Pete Lindstrom — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:32:01 +0000

@Eric -

Not sure if you are suggesting McAfee bought and then sold a DLP provider, and now has rebought into the space with Reconnex or just listing other companies McAfee has bought…

If the latter, McAfee has also bought Deersoft, Entercept, Intruvert, Foundstone, Wireless Security, SiteAdvisor, Preventsys, Citadel Security, Onigma, and Scan Alert. These along with those cited above constitute everything I am aware of since 2003.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:02:41 +0000

Don’t forget about Reconnex last month

By: Mark Curphey

Mark Curphey — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 01:20:05 +0000

That culture seems to go back to NAI days. They bought Balista back in the day (late 90′s) and then Foundstone (another network scanner) for 86 mill in Oct 2004.

By: Pete Lindstrom

Pete Lindstrom — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 18:51:19 +0000

@Kurt -

Thanks. Changes made.

By: kurt wismer

kurt wismer — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:32:25 +0000

i think your timeline is a little off…

1997, mcafee associates merged with network general and the result was network associates…