Dear Secure Computing Partner,
I am very pleased to inform you that McAfee, Inc. has announced its intention to acquire Secure Computing Corporation. McAfee is the industry‘s largest dedicated security company and an industry leader in security risk management with the most comprehensive and integrated product offerings.
This pending acquisition represents a great win for Secure Computing and our partners. The combination will produce a company with an unrivaled security product portfolio and an organization with deep expertise in this rapidly growing market. Upon the addition of Secure Computing‘s products and services, McAfee will be able to deliver the industry’s most complete network security portfolio, covering intrusion prevention, firewall, Web security, email security, data protection and network access control for small and mid-sized customers to the world‘s largest enterprises. This will allow McAfee to offer a breadth and depth of technology on the endpoint, at the network and "in the cloud," which its competition simply will be unable to match.
Secure Computing partners will benefit from:
- broader product offerings and a comprehensive set of solutions that can help partners expand their businesses and increase their profitability
- the resources of a global security company
- increased investments in technology and development and continued support for customer‘s existing investments in Secure Computing solutions
Over the years, you have supported us with your business and helped us by guiding our product development and company strategy. It is because of this, that our solutions protect much of the critical infrastructure in many global enterprises and we are considered a leader in each of our major lines of business: firewalls for high assurance networks, Web security and email security.
I’d like to emphasize that we will continue business as usual through the close of the acquisition, which is expected to take place in the fourth quarter of 2008. Please continue to use the same channels you have been using to do business with us. We will follow up with further communications as we work through the details of this exciting pending acquisition.
For Secure Computing, partnerships have always been the key to our success because they gave us the leverage to compete effectively against much larger companies. We are here because of you and we will not lose that focus. Please do not hesitate to reach out to your local point of contact or directly to me or members of my senior management team.
Conference call replay details:
McAfee hosted a conference call today at 5:30 a.m. Pacific, 8:30 a.m. Eastern to discuss the acquisition. A replay of the call is available until October 6, 2008 by calling (800) 642-1687 (United States toll-free) or (706) 645-9291 (international).
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