German Antivirus company, Avira has acquired social monitoring startup SocialShield. SocialShield was launched in 2010 which aims to help parents in protecting their children from risks on social networks. Company is planning to add it in the lineup of Avira’s free security products.
“Avira is broadening our security focus from safe-guarding computers to now protecting the people who use them, and that requires us to look beyond viruses and worms and Trojans,” Avira Products and Markets COO Sascha Beyer says in the press release. “The acquisition of SocialShield not only brings child safety technology into Avira’s portfolio, but it also enhances our knowledge of social networking security and our awareness of the risks within the ‘cloud.’”
SocialShield was founded by Noah Kindler and Arad Rostampour, and George Garrick. It was popular for its “friend verification technology” which checks a child’s Facebook and MySpace friends against 50 Internet databases.
