Website alienvault.com Number of employees 200 Type of business Private | CEO Barmak Meftah (2011–) Founded 2007, Madrid, Spain | |
Industry Computer Security, Computer Software Founder Julio Casal, Dominique Karg, Alberto Roman Key people Barmak Meftah, CEO; Roger Thornton, CTO; Jaime Blasco, Chief Scientist Headquarters San Mateo, California, United States Profiles | ||
Alienvault unified security management usm overview
AlienVault is a developer of commercial and open source solutions to manage cyber attacks, including the Open Threat Exchange, the world's largest crowd-sourced computer-security platform with more than 26,000 participants in 140 countries that share more than one million potential threats daily. The company has raised $116 million since it was founded in 2007. In 2015, AlienVault researchers released a study disclosing that Chinese hackers were circumventing popular privacy tools.
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Products
In addition to their free products, AlienVault offers a paid security platform, called Unified Security Management, that integrates threat detection, incident response, and compliance management into one solution. Threat applications are offered via hardware, virtual machines and as a cloud service.
The Open Threat Exchange (OTX), which is free, enables security experts to research and collaborate on new threats, better compare data and integrate threat information into their security systems. A big data platform, OTX leverages natural language processing and machine learning.
AlienVault also runs the Open Source Security Information Management (OSSIM) project, which helps network administrators with computer security, intrusion detection and response.
History
The OSSIM project began in 2003 and was started by Dominique Karg, Julio Casal and later Alberto Román. It became the basis of AlienVault, founded in 2007 in Madrid, Spain.
The company hired the management team of Hewlett Packard's Fortify group in 2012, including AlienVault CEO Barmak Meftah, CTO Roger Thornton and five others.
In 2015, the company partnered with Intel to coordinate real-time threat information. A similar deal with Hewlett Packard was announced the same year.
In June 2015, AlienVault Chief Scientist Jaime Blasco released a report saying that Chinese hackers found a way to circumvent both virtual private networks (VPNs), and Tor, anonymity software that hides a computer’s location by routing its requests through a series of Internet Service Providers.
Finances
In August 2015, the firm raised $52 million to expand its security business. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners and included GGV Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Trident Capital, and Caufield and Byers.
The company said in 2015 it was adding 300 to 400 new clients each quarter and it hired a Chief Financial Officer to help it prepare for a possible Initial Public Offering (IPO).
Awards
In 2015, AlienVault won the "Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) Solution of the Year" presented by The Computing Security Awards.
In 2014, AlienVault was nominated for “Best SMB Security Product” and Jaime Blasco, Director of AlienVault Labs, was nominated for “Technology Hero of the Year” by V3, a technology industry publication.
Competitors
AlienVault competes in the SIEM and network security industry against HP ArcSight, IBM QRadar and LogRhythm, among others.