Santa Clara, Calif-based McAfee has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Baltimore, MD-based Light Point Security. Financial details have not been disclosed, but on completion of the acquisition, the Light Point staff will join McAfee, while the Light Point technology will be integrated into the McAfee Secure Web Gateway.
Light Point Security, founded in 2010 by Beau Adkins (CTO) and Zuly Gonzalez (CEO) -- both former employees with the NSA -- offers full remote browser isolation technology. Browsed web content is executed remotely outside of the customer's network and well away from the browser concerned. Only what amounts to a live stream of the web page display is then beamed to the user. All executable code, including any known or unknown malware, is left behind in the remote location, and wiped when the user session completes.
In this way, the user's browser is completely isolated from any malicious code delivered by the browsed web page. Users can browse freely to any web site of interest without reference to any company security policy limitations, and can view any content without concern. Since the browser is a major source of malware infections, a primary attack surface is automatically neutralized.
Even file downloads, not normally seen in the browser, are sanitized dynamically or scanned with more than 40 different anti-malware engines before reaching the user's computer. An automatic side benefit is anonymous browsing. Visited websites can only see information about the remote Light Point servers, and cannot see or track the user.
"Light Point Security's technology enables users to browse any website safely, securely and without limitations, without having to keep up with website changes. This stops attacks launched against a web browser before they can even enter the network without hampering user experience," said ..
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