McAfee's business model

McAfee mission is “proactively secures systems and networks from known and as yet undiscovered threats worldwide”. Contrariwise to Symantec, that has business units also in Storage and ITOM (information technology operations management), McAfee focused from the beginning on computer security solutions. Acquisitions and business unites sales always followed this principle. Symantec’s total revenues (2007) were over $5 billion but only $2,768.5 billion were made in the security markets while McAfee’s total revenue were $1,308,2 billion of which $1,225.7 billion on the security market.

McAfee offerings address security in three key aspects:
• End point protection: security solution for servers, desktop and laptop computer, devices that are entry and exit points for corporate systems and network, handheld voice and data phones.
• Data protection: security measures for data residing on various devices that prevent data loss through unauthorized transmission or distribution.
• Network protection: englobe the end point protection and it is extended also to email and web protection, spam filters, virus, spyware, worms.