Apple buys AuthenTec

On Habré a couple of times, news about a company developing mobile security applications has come up. The company's name is AuthenTec, and the other day it was reported that it was bought by Apple. The amount of the transaction is quite serious - 355 million US dollars.

The main product of the purchased company is software for mobile devices, personal computers and network devices, which is designed to ensure the security of both individual devices and entire systems. In addition, AuthenTec releases hardware solutions of a similar focus. This company actively cooperates with large and medium partners, including such giants as Samsung, Nokia, Motorola, LG, Lenovo.
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As a result of the signing of the contract of sale, AuthenTec becomes a subsidiary of the apple company. All assets of this company, including patents and other developments, become the property of Apple. It may well be that in the near future, security technologies developed inside AuthenTec will become part of Apple products.

Currently, the most popular products of AuthenTec are biometric scanners in mobile devices, these scanners are used to authenticate the user when making a payment from mobile devices.

For example, this may be biometric protection, or any other technology from the security sector. Now there are more and more malicious software for Apple products, so that the company does not interfere with additional protection.

Via reuters