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McAfee announced today it is looking to buy privately held Sentrigo, a provider of database security and compliance, assessment, monitoring and intrusion prevention solutions.
The proposed transaction will merge best-in-class technologies to stop database attacks, diagnose and assess the database environment, provide complete visibility into all transactions leveraging McAfee and Sentrigo“™s Database Audit and Database Activity Monitoring solutions, and leverage Sentrigo“™s offering of Virtual Patching.
The integration of Sentrigo with McAfee will give customers the highest level of security across their database environments and allow companies to rapidly deploy a database security strategy in a cost-effective manner, said Dave DeWalt, president of McAfee.
“McAfee is continuing to broaden its security portfolio to now-secure databases, as well as endpoints, networks, email and web. In addition to the acquisition announcement, McAfee is also announcing a complete database security platform which includes products across the McAfee portfolio,“ he said.
Upon completion of the proposed acquisition, the Sentrigo team will report to the McAfee Risk & Compliance business unit, headed by Stuart McClure, senior vice president and general manager.
McAfee did not disclose financial terms of the deal.
