It was announced today that Intel will buy Mcafee for over $7 billion dollars in cash. There had been rumors that HP was looking to buy Mcafee which would have been interesting to see how they would have combined the Tippingpoint and Mcaffe intrusion prevention systems. At first glance the Intel merger does seem odd until you begin to look at some of the benefits.
Intel is developing processors with AES instructions sets included. In many ways this allows Intel to provide hardware based encryption and they now own a product to directly integrate with this processor. They could also develop AV solutions running on chips which would dramatically increase the scanning speed.
If handled correctly this could dramatically change the availability of these products. Why buy another solution if your hardware already has one.
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