How We Got to a McAfee Enterprise Business Sale
Intel bought McAfee in 2010. It then tried to refocus its security efforts toward the data center by renaming the acquired company Intel Security. (There was also the bonus of shedding ties to troubled McAfee founder John McAfee and his erratic behavior.) After that, Intel spun out the security unit in 2017 as an independent entity. That was when alternative asset manager TPG poured $4.2 billion into the vendor. And the McAfee name returned. McAfee has spent the intervening years rolling out a number of platforms and beefing up its channel programs. But the name association with the vendor’s billionaire founder has continued to cast a shadow.
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