McAfee acquires Onigma

MUMBAI



OCTOBER 17, 2006

McAfee today announced that it has acquired Onigma Ltd, a privately-held

provider of data protection solutions that monitor, report and prevent

confidential data from leaving the enterprise. This $20 million cash acquisition

advances McAfee's strategy of offering its enterprise customers a

comprehensive security risk management approach to managing security and

compliance.

“Customers have been asking us for robust protection against the risks

associated with the loss of confidential data and intellectual property,” said

Christopher Bolin, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President,

McAfee, Inc. “Onigma gives us additional capabilities and expertise to help

customers reduce the risk associated with compliance violations, corporate

governance concerns, internal policy infractions and information leaks.”

Through the acquisition of Onigma's industry leading content-based data

loss prevention (DLP) product, McAfee® is announcing its host-based data loss

prevention solution called McAfee Data Loss Prevention. It will help protect

enterprises from the risk associated with unauthorized transfer of data from

within or outside of the organization.