McAfee

October 1, 2009 -- The world's largest dedicated security company, McAfee, Inc., today announced the availability of McAfee Online Backup, a new secure online service for consumers that stores and encrypts digital assets such as photos, videos, music, e-mails and other files.

Industry research shows a strong market need for a secure, automated, and simple to use online backup solution:

• Every week 140,000 hard drives will crash in the United States (according to Google Labs)
• Every week 12,000 laptops are lost or stolen in U.S. airports (according to Dell & Ponemon Institute LLC)
• 70% of data losses are due to events beyond user control (according to a study by Pepperdine University)
• U.S. consumers own, on average, nearly 1,800 digital files each, yet more than half (52%) don't backup their data because they don't know how, believe it takes too much time or don't have the tools needed to backup (according to the Consumer Electronics Association)

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April 27, 2009--McAfee, Inc. today announced that it has completed an internal beta for a new offering that will help families oversee their kids' and teens' online interests, while keeping them safe as they learn and explore the Internet. The McAfee product is named "McAfee Family Protection" and will be available for sale later this quarter.

The McAfee Family Protection software allows parents to set up individual accounts for each of their children so it can be tailored for kids as they grow. Some features include the ability to approve a list of e-mail contacts, filter both categories of content as well as specific keywords, set up time limits and monitor personal information that users post on social networking sites.

As increasing numbers of kids and teens have their own PCs and use them not only for schoolwork, but for entertainment and to communicate with peers, research shows that U.S. parents have become more concerned with online safety issues. In particular, kids and teens support their parents' worries by communicating with strangers and hiding online activities:

• 52% of teens admitted having given out personal information to someone online they didn't know offline
• 16% of kids and teens admit they have private e-mail addresses or social networking profiles to hide what they do online from their parents
• 43% of parents do not know what personal information their children have been posted on the Internet
• 63% of parents are concerned with their children's security when they are online
• 52% are concerned about inappropriate content on Web sites

*Sources: 2008 Forrester Consumer Technographics survey; Virtual Parenting Report, March 2009; McAfee/Harris Interactive Moms and Teens Survey, 2009. Read more