Boston, MA, 11/12/2013 (wallstreetpr) – On Monday, Intel Corporation (NASDAQ:INTC)’s wholly owned subsidiary McAfee announced that its McAfee LiveSafeTM service has been picked up as Editors’ Choice by PCMag. McAfee LiveSafe is one of its kind cross device solution which is efficient enough to protect consumers’ data, identity for all of their PCs, Macs, Smartphones and tablets.PCMag has rated the service 4.5 out of 5, while its editors have appreciated the single web based console service for its all-inclusive protection abilities and the value it gives through its unlimited license offerings which enables a user to protect all of the devices owned by him.
McAfee LiveSafe service offers an enthralling feature called the McAfee Personal Locker which retrieves the user’s most sensitive documents like passports and IDs only after validating the user authentication based on voice and face recognition. This makes the service as the industry’s first of its kind cross-device security service to integrate biometric verification technology. PCMag stated that the McAfee’s service is totally cool.
Additionally, moving beyond from the criteria of just protecting customers from online threats and viruses, McAfee LiveSafe service also unfolds with it a highly automated and simplified method of managing usernames and passwords, higher privacy protection for Smartphone and tablets complemented more with its premium award-winning customer support. McAfree offers this service through select retailers and has priced $19.99 for a year’s subscription if purchased with a new PC or tablet, and $79.99 for consumers with existing PCs and tablets. The softwarehas been pre-installed on Ultrabook TM devices and PCs from leading hardware manufacturers.
Alan LeFort, McAfee’s consumer product management vice president, said that with mobile connectivity rapidly moving fast as well as the threat landscape changing dramatically, has created a necessity for the successful security companies to address the need of complete protection irrespective of their place and device through which they operate.