30 May 2007

Google secures Greenborder security coup

Search engine giant Google has continued its recent acquisitioning trend by buying up Mountain View-based security start-up GreenBorder Technologies.

The company makes web browsing anti-malware security software, protecting users as they surf the net.

Greenborder offers an easy solution to virus, spyware and Trojan threats because it isolates each internet session from the rest of the PC and earlier online sessions.

As Greenborder itself reveals: "The beauty of the GreenBorder Pro software is it doesn't need to be updated to guard against new virus signatures or new types of malware.

"It creates a secluded, virtual internet session and when you are done, it flushes everything away, in your cache and in temporary files."

The name Greenborder comes from the green border that applies itself to the web browser when the window is active.

It is widely considered that this isn't an attempt by Google to take on the IT security market.

"Google dabbles in everything," Mike Rothman, president of analyst firm Security Incite, told Secure Computing Magazine. "They're extremely smart and they kind of dip their toes and learn. If they want to do something, they tend to do a pretty big purchase and write a pretty big cheque. GreenBorder is not that purchase."

Aaron Zamost, a corporate communications representative with Google, said: "This is pretty straightforward, it's primarily a talent acquisition for us; they have a small team of engineers that we were really impressed with.

"The idea is that these guys have great expertise in the security domain that can provide obvious benefits to Google, its users, and its advertisers."

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