Lookout Mobile Security
Lookout is a company that specializes in the security of smartphones and tablets and offers mobile security solutions for Android and iOS . The San Francisco- based company has 20 million users on 400 cellular networks and in 170 countries worldwide.
history
As early as 2005, John Hering had pointed out the danger of being able to spy on cell phones and hacked numerous cell phones of celebrities at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles . In 2007, he and college friends Kevin Mahaffey and James Burgess founded Flexilis, a mobile security company that became Lookout in 2009.
Currently (2012) Lookout has more than 250 employees and 46 million users worldwide. John Hering, Founder and CEO of Lookout, was introduced by the American trade publication Venture Beat as one of the “10 Disruptive Individuals Reshaping the Mobile Industry”.
Products and services
- Lookout Security & Antivirus
- Lookout for iOS
- Ad Network Detector
- Mobile Threat Tracker:
- Plan B
- Stagefright Detector
Investors and Partnerships
In several rounds of financing, Lookout raised $ 75 million from investors Accel Partners , Index Ventures , Khosla Ventures and Trilogy Equity Partners . The largest part contributed with 40 million dollars Netscape founder Andreesen Horowitz.
In April 2012, Lookout and Deutsche Telekom entered into a strategic partnership. Together they want to develop and sell applications for protecting mobile devices. As part of the cooperation, Telekom will also make the Lookout Mobile Security app available to its customers in Europe. The app has been pre-installed on all Telekom devices since December 2012.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ben Schwan: Telekom distributes Lookout smartphone security software; Heise (April 23, 2012)
- ↑ Martin Gropp: The greatest danger is the user himself; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (April 24, 2012)
- ↑ Ben Schwan: Telekom distributes Lookout smartphone security software; Heise (April 23, 2012)
- ↑ Venture Beat
- ↑ Connect (December 14, 2011)
- ↑ http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/lookout-free/id434893913?mt=8
- ↑ Arne Arnold: Is my Android smartphone infected? PC World (June 5, 2012)
- ↑ Marcel Hilzinger: Overview of global smartphone attacks with the Mobile Threat Tracker; Android User ( Memento of the original from February 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (January 25, 2012)
- ↑ Manfred Bremmer: The app for "afterwards"; Computer Week (August 29, 2011)
- ↑ Google Play: Stagefright Detector
- ^ Annika Graf and Arndt Ohler: Telekom concludes alliance with US startup; Financial Times Deutschland ( Memento from February 11, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (April 23, 2012)
- ^ Björn Greif: Smartphone security: Deutsche Telekom cooperates with Lookout; Zdnet (April 23, 2012)
