Microsoft acquires Komoku Inc

March 25th, 2008 • Related • Filed Under

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/washbizblog/2008/03/post_7.html

Microsoft announced today that it has acquired a D.C.-area computer science professor’s start-up company, Komoku Inc., which develops a product protecting computers against malicious software attacks.

Komoku was founded in 2004 by William Arbaugh, a computer scientist at the University of Maryland.

The firm develops a type of protection against “rootkits,” a form of malicious software that often goes undetected by computer security programs. Microsoft plans to incorporate the software into its business-oriented line of computer security software.

Very cool, I wonder if this will bring innovation of Microsoft’s products in terms of security and auditing, anything we can do to aid securing the systems in doing so limiting liability has to be a good thing. It only takes one event to highlight to your competition and your customers a perceived problem with the way you manage your IT (so and so were out because they got hit by the … exploit).

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