Type Private Area served Worldwide CFO David Roshak Founded 5 August 2015 | Industry Information security CEO Dan Burns Number of employees 1,500 Chief information officer Paul Lehman | |
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Predecessor Accuvant and FishNet Security Key people Dan Burns (CEO)
David Roshak (CFO)
Paul Lehman (Chief Information Officer) Services Cyber Security Services Headquarters Denver, Colorado, United States Subsidiaries Optiv Security Inc., Optiv Federal Inc. Profiles | ||
Optiv Security ("Optiv") is a privately owned information security company based in Denver, Colorado, United States. Optiv is a comprehensive pure-play cyber security solutions provider in North America.
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Optiv helps businesses, governments and educational institutions plan, build and run successful security programs through the right combination of products, services and solutions related to security program strategy, enterprise risk and consulting, threat and vulnerability management, enterprise incident management, security architecture and implementation, training, identity and access management and managed security.
Optiv has served more than 7,500 clients in more than 70 countries over the past three years. These clients are various sizes across multiple industries, including Fortune 500 companies. Optiv maintains partnerships with more than 350 of the leading security product manufacturers.
History
On November 5, 2014, security firms Accuvant and FishNet Security announced that they would join forces to create a new, yet to be named company. The merger would create a roughly $1.5 billion information security giant with solutions covering nearly every aspect of cyberdefense.
The merger was completed on February 2, 2015 when the company announced that the previously announced transaction had closed. The new company was owned primarily by the Blackstone Group, a private equity firm that acquired a majority stake of Accuvant in March 2014.
On April 21, 2015, Accuvant and FishNet Security announced plans to launch their new, combined corporate name and brand, and to begin conducting business as Optiv Security in summer 2015.
During the Black Hat USA 2015 conference, on August 5, 2015 Accuvant and FishNet Security announced that it had completed its transformation merger and was now conducting business as Optiv Security. It also launched its new brand at the conference.