McAfee to Buy Secure Computing

Yesterday, McAfee announced it was buying troubled security vendor Secure Computing. Secure's had its share of problems this past year including telling financial analysts that it was suspending forward guidance for the year. That combined with most of the top execs from the Ciphertrust acquisition leaving the company seems to have led to this buyout.

McAfee has never been strong in selling appliances and this acquisition gives them a well known entry in the security market. Time will tell as to whether they can build on the WebWasher (SecureWeb) and IronMail (SecureMail) products.