"This expansion of McAfee Labs will help us improve the McAfee customer experience and allow for more technical innovation," said Jeff Green in Bangalore on Monday, senior vice president for McAfee Labs. "The Santiago, Chile, facility will expand our global footprint and make McAfee Labs stand out even more as the world's premier security research organization."

McAfee Labs is responsible for the technology that enables McAfee to secure millions of computer users around the globe. With more than 6,000 employees, McAfee operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week from offices in Asia, Europe and the Americas. The expansion in Latin America expands the company's capability to deal with the continued onslaught of malicious software and to further innovate on McAfee technology.