The Intel division that I joined was the Intel Security Group, which was a rebranding of the previously acquired McAfee. The main goal of this division was to provide security solutions to enterprise customers.
When I joined the company, our team had been recently created and the first order of business was to transfer all the workload and responsibilities from an existing team in the US. This team owned what was known as DXL (Data eXchange Layer), a software service that would allow enterprises to distribute security updates to all their workstations. The service was essentially a broker that would handle all sorts of security updates (e.g. virus lists for the antivirus, operating system updates, new firewall rules, etc.).
During my tenure at Intel, I focused on ensuring that we produced a DXL version that was FIPS 140 compliant, so that it could be commercialized to US government institutions. This involved an extensive amount of research both of the inherited codebase and also the FIPS standard itself. As part of this task, our team produced a few proofs of concept by reusing existing libraries that were already FIPS certified and that complied with Intel’s open source policies.