What Will The 'New McAfee' Look Like For Patrners?
Submitted by Sarah Kuranda on
What’s the benefit of splitting out from Intel? Why the spin-out?
It creates longer-term opportunities. This is a different company structure, which allows us to do different things. For example, there are probably acquisitions we could make over the long term to augment what we’re doing in our business as an independent company solely focused on cybersecurity that will be more directly in our line of sight. The other thing is, being a focused cybersecurity player requires different decisions to get made on a day-to-day basis in the business around people, around technical choices, budgeting decisions. … The nice thing for us is Intel is very much a participant, a 49 percent owner, a full backer of everything we have been doing and will do in the future, but they are setting us up so we can run fast and be focused after the cybersecurity marketplace in the way our customers and partners need us to do it. Intel is a great company and I think we’re better for having been a part of Intel, but this allows us to continue to collaborate with Intel on work in our product portfolio. Clearly, Intel as a company has a lot of interest in our long -erm success, but this will allow us to be an independent organization, completely focused on cybersecurity at our core.