McAfee is once again an independent company

Famed anti-virus vendor McAfee is an independent company again as the sale of the majority of the firm to private equity firm TPG became final this morning.

All current McAfee personnel, including research analysts, sales teams and support staff will remain in place, and products and pricing will also stay the same, said Steve Grobman, the new company’s CTO. He was previously the CTO of Intel Security.

Christopher Young, who was previously general manager of Intel Security, is now McAfee’s CEO.

Intel will retain a 49 percent stake in McAfee.

The change will mean that McAfee will be better able to focus on security, and will also be able to invest more in innovation, said Grobman.

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