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Finjan Software, Inc.

Type	Privately owned
Founded	1996
Headquarters	San Jose, California, USA
Key people	Gadi Maier, President & CEO, Dennis Wolf, Executive Vice President and CFO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO, Marcio Lempert, General Manager Operations & International Sales
Industry	Computer security
Employees	~150 (2009)
Website	www.finjan.com

Finjan is a privately owned web security company headquartered in San Jose, California. Finjan sells secure web gateway products and unified web security solutions for the enterprise market. Its web security products are marketed under the brand name "Vital Security".

Its installed base comprises millions of enterprise users worldwide, including Fortune 1000 companies in the finance, banking, insurance, healthcare, airline and high-tech sectors, as well as large government agencies. Through its award-winning^[1] Secure Web Gateway appliances, Finjan protects from cybercrime, including Crimeware or malware and Web 2.0 attacks.

Finjan's "Malicious Code Research Center" (MCRC) is active in the research and detection of web threats. It regularly publishes security reports to warn customers and the industry about the latest trends in Crimeware, Web 2.0 attacks and malware such as trojans.

On April 22, 2009, Finjan traced a botnet of nearly two million machines that had been taken over by malicious hackers in the Ukraine. This botnet included several government affiliated computers in the UK and US.^[2]

History

Finjan was founded in 1996 by Shlomo Touboul, who served as its first CEO. The current CEO is Gadi Maier. Other key members of the management team include Yuval Ben-Itzhak^[3], CTO, Dennis Wolf, Executive Vice President and CFO, and Marcio Lempert, General Manager Operations & International Sales.

Finjan's international operations include offices in North America, Europe, Asia and an R&D facility in Israel.

In November 2009 the company was sold to M86 Security, a global computer security firm based in Orange, California with international headquarters in London and offices worldwide.^[4]

Investors

Finjan is privately owned and its major shareholders include Cisco^[5], Microsoft, Bessemer Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, HarbourVest Partners and Israel Seed Partners. In November 2008, the company secured an additional investment of $22M^[6].

Products

Utilizing its patented active real-time content inspection, Finjan’s products combine multi-layered web security, Data Leakage Prevention (DLP), productivity control, URL categorization, content caching and applications control technologies on a single appliance. The SWG appliances leverage patented real-time security technologies, including Anti-Crimeware/Anti-Malware, Vulnerability Anti.dote, Anti-Spyware, and Anti-Virus. Finjan RUSafe audits incoming and outgoing Web traffic using Finjan's security technologies, without requiring any changes to their security infrastructure and network topology. For more on Finjan SecureBrowsing, read this article: Finjan SecureBrowsing.

Intellectual property and technology

Finjan invented the concept of proactive content security with its behavior-based content analysis technology. This and other selected technology patents were licensed to Microsoft in July 2005^[7].

As of April 2009, Finjan's intellectual property portfolio^[8] includes many granted and pending patents worldwide in the areas of behavior-based security and digital rights management.

A jury^[9] in a US patent infringement trial found that Secure Computing Corp, Cyberguard and Webwasher infringed on all asserted claims of three Finjan patents. The jury further found the infringement to be willful and confirmed that Finjan's patents were valid.

References

External links

• Finjan SecureBrowsing
• Butler Group research: Finjan Unified Secure Web Gateway, v9.2