Faculty of Financial & Administrative Sciences
Strategic Management Model
Applied Study on
<MacAfee 2005: Antivirus and Antispyware>
Prepared by: Nada Ali
Supervised by:
Dr. Ola Elgeuoshy
Spring 2013
Table of Contents
Introduction
Module (1): Environmental Scanning
Ch1: External Environment Analysis
Ch2: Internal Environment Analysis and organizational analysis
Module(2): Strategy Formulation Ch3: strategy formulation
Module(3): Strategy Implementation
Ch4: strategy implementation
Module(4): evaluation and control Ch5: Evaluation and control
Summary & Conclusion
References
Introduction
McAfee, Inc. is an American global computersecurity software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and the world 's largest dedicated security technology company.As of February 28, 2011, McAfee is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel. The company was founded in 1987 as McAfee Associates, named for its founder John McAfee, who resigned from the company in 1994. MacAfee was incorporated in the state of Delaware in 1992. Network Associates was formed in 1997 as a merger of McAfee Associates and Network General. In 2004, a major restructuring occurred. In the spring, the company sold its Magic Solutions business to Remedy, a subsidiary of BMC Software. In the summerof 2004, the company sold the Sniffer Technologies business to a venture capital backed firm named Network General - the same name as the original owner of Sniffer Technologies. Also, the company changed its name back to McAfee to reflect its focus on security-related technologies. Among other companies bought and sold by McAfee (formerly known as Network Associates) is Trusted Information Systems, which developed the Firewall Toolkit, which was the free software foundation for the commercial Gauntlet Firewall, which was later sold by McAfee to Secure Computing Corporation. Network Associates, as a result of brief ownership
References: * Case study ; Bethany Sweesy and Alan N. Hoffman * MacAfee embedded control data sheet * Competitive analysis of MacAfee * The MacAfee architecture * MacAfee code of conduct * Wikipedia McAfee Embedded Control System integrity, change control, and