BIZCHINA / Overseas Investment
McAfee taps emerging mobile security sector
By Liu Baijia (China Daily)
Updated: 2006-07-06 09:33
US information security firm McAfee has opened its sixth research and
development centre in Shenzhen as the company boosts efforts to develop
emerging markets and mobile security.
George Samenuk, chairman and chief executive officer of the New York
Security Exchange-listed firm, said yesterday that the McAfee centre in
South China's Shenzhen would soon expand its engineering team from 13 to
30.
He said yesterday in Beijing that one of the strategic changes McAfee had
made in the past three years is "to take advantage of wireless
technologies," and Shenzhen's position as a centre for mobile phone
development makes the city an ideal place to conduct research on mobile
phone information security.
The company has two development centres in the United States, one in
Canada, one in the United Kingdom and one in India.
With more than 400 million mobile phones, China has the world's largest
population of mobile users. And as mobile communications grow in
popularity, handsets have also become a target for viruses and hackers.
McAfee, which claims to be the largest dedicated information solutions
provider, partnered with China Unicom, the country's second-largest
mobile operator, as part of its efforts to expand in mobile security in
the country.
Zhu Shijun, general manager of China Unicom's date and fixed-line
communications department, said the two companies would first co-operate
on China Unicom's e-mail system so that its subscribers and users can
scan for attacks such as viruses, Trojans and spyware.
Users get a free 30-day trial before they decide whether to subscribe to
the services.
The e-mail service has 5 million paid subscribers and China Unicom has
over 130 million mobile subscribers.
Zhu said the co-operation would expand to other areas such as mobile
phones in the future.
Timothy Liu, director of McAfee China, revealed that his company is also
talking with another Chinese telecom operator to help small and medium
enterprises access information security tools.
China is one of the fastest growing markets for the US firm, which grew
by more than 20 per cent last year with revenue of US$987 million.
Liu said the Chinese market still lags behind Japan and Australia in the
Asia-Pacific region, but he said it would take over the Australian market
soon to become the second-largest for McAfee in the region.
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