Lookout vs McAfee

Lookout is a San Francisco-based mobile security company. It provides security to both private and business mobile devices. Lookout is a mobile security firm started by recent graduates of the University of Southern California. The original name of the company was Flexilis. In 2005, the firm showed the vulnerabilities of smartphones to hacking via Bluetooth, in addition to other problems in mobile security. In 2009 Khosla Ventures provided $5.5 million in funding to the company as it began developing mobile security software. The programs were initially tested on Android and Windows devices, before expanding to Blackberry and iPhone devices. The software was intended to protect mobile devices from malicious programs, as well as allowing users to back up and delete data from their devices. The co-founders of Flexilis and Lookout are John Hering, who serves as Lookout's executive chairman, James Burgess, and Kevin Mahaffey.