McAfee Sues 3 Former Staffers Now at Rival Tanium

Lawsuit alleges sales representatives stole trade secrets from McAfee before joining Tanium.

Dark Reading Staff, Dark Reading

June 27, 2019

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McAfee has filead a lawsuit against former members of its sales team who left the company for jobs at competitor Tanium in the past year.

The filing, which was first reported by Cyberscoop yesterday, alleges that Jennifer Kinney, Alan Coe, and Percy Tejeda participated in a conspiracy to pilfer McAfee sales secrets and customer strategies in their new positions at Tanium.

Tejeda, former director of finance at McAfee, hired Kinney and Coe to join him at Tanium, according to the suit. McAfee then conducted a forensic analysis of Kinney and Coe's McAfee computers and discovered they had copied and taken sensitive files from the company before they resigned for their new positions at Tanium. 

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