Finjan

Infobox_Company
company_name = Finjan Software, Inc.
company_
company_type = Privately owned
foundation = 1996
location = flagicon|USA San Jose, California, USA
key_people = John Vigouroux, President & CEO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak,CTO, Marcio Lempert, General Manager Operatons & International Sales
industry = Computer security
num_employees = 150+ (2008)
homepage = [http://www.finjan.com www.finjan.com]

Finjan is a privately owned web security company headquartered in San Jose, California. Finjan sells web security products, marketed under the brand name "Vital Security^TM", to enterprises of all sizes.

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 Secure Web Gateway appliances, Finjan protects customers' vital data assets from the growing cybercrime threat, including Crimeware and Web 2.0 attacks.

Finjan's Malicious Code Research Center (MCRC) is dedicated to the research and detection of web threats. It regularly publishes its Malicious Page of the Month (MPOM) and trend reports to warn customers and the industry about the latest trends in Crimeware, Web 2.0 attacks and malware such as Trojans.

History

Finjan was founded in 1996 by Shlomo Touboul, who served as its first CEO. The current President & CEO is John Vigouroux. Other key members of the management team include Yuval Ben-Itzhak, CTO 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.

Investors

Finjan is privately owned and its major shareholders include Cisco, Microsoft, Bessemer Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, HarbourVest Partners and Israel Seed Partners.

Products

Finjan's fully integrated Vital Security^TM Web Appliances leverage patented real-time security technologies (real-time content inspection security, Vulnerability Anti.dote^TM, Anti-Spyware, and SSL Inspection engines) to protect against any type of malicious code. Anti-Virus and URL Filtering are also available as optional modules. Finjan RUSafe^TM audits incoming and outgoing Web traffic using Finjan's unmatched security technologies, without requiring any changes to their security infrastructure and network topology. They also have made the link scanning product Finjan SecureBrowsing for Mac, Windows, and Linux. It works with the search engines Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Live Search. 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 [http://www.itsecurity.com/security.htm?s=5946&beam=finjan] .

As of February 2008, Finjan's intellectual property portfolio [http://www.finjan.com/Content.aspx?id=288] includes many granted and pending patents worldwide in the areas of behavior-based security and digital rights management.

A jury decision [http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUSN1345669220080313] in a US patent infringement trial has been made at March 12th, ruling that SecureComputing has willfully infringed several of Finjan's patents

External links

* [http://www.finjan.com/ Official website]
* [http://www.finjan.com/SecurityLab.aspx?id=547 Malicous Code Research Center (MCRC)]
* [http://www.securebrowsing.finjan.com Finjan SecureBrowsing]