Safenet
| SafeNet, Inc. | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Incorporated |
| founding | 1983 |
| Seat | Belcamp, Maryland United States
|
| management | Dave Hansen, President and CEO |
| Number of employees | 1,043 (2005)
> 1,600 (2011) in 25 countries |
| sales | $ 263.06 million (2005)
~ $ 450 million (2011) |
| Branch | Information technology, IT security |
| Website | safenet-inc.com |
The SafeNet, Inc. was a US company for information security solutions for the protection of data, as well as licensing solutions for applications and "embedded software".
history
SafeNet was founded in 1983 in Timonium, Maryland under the name Industrial Resource Engineering (IRE) . In the beginning, the focus was on selling security solutions for the protection of public and private networks of financial institutions, then the US government was added as a customer. Based on its own VPN product line, the company was renamed SafeNet in 2001. In 2005 SafeNet had 1,043 employees worldwide, including 469 encryption engineers. The company is owned by Vector Capital , an investment company based in San Francisco , California .
In August 2014, Gemalto announced that it would acquire SafeNet for $ 890 million by the end of the year.
SafeNet is now part of Gemalto, but its products continue to be marketed under the SafeNet name.
In April 2019 Gemalto was bought by the Thales Group and integrated into their product range.
Both Safenet and Gemalto are among the first to support the FIDO alliance , which has been developing the Universal Second Factor (U2F) industry standard for generally applicable two-factor authentication since 2013 .
Branches
In addition to its headquarters in Belcamp, Maryland, SafeNet has offices in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Asia-Pacific region . Subsidiaries in German-speaking countries are located in Munich and Ennetbaden in Switzerland.
Significance for the market
SafeNet sells its security solutions in over 100 countries and has around 25,000 customers and is also the market leader in IPsec software, hardware security modules (HSMs), licensing solutions and Crypto-IP.
SafeNet's annual revenue is approximately $ 337 million (2013). From 2002 to 2007 the company increased its sales by 838 percent.
Other products and services
- License management
- Software monetization
- IP protection
- Application & Transaction Security (Hardware Security Module)
- High speed and network encryption
- Database encryption
- Full disk encryption
- Identity & Access Management
- Rights management
Acquisitions
SafeNet took over the following companies:
- SecureALink (2002) - high-performance encryption chips
- Cylink Corporation (2003) - VPN security solutions
- Rainbow Technologies (2004) - Encryption, Identity Management and Licensing Solutions
- Chrysalis (2004) - HSM Server
- Datakey (2004) - Identity Management Solutions
- Media Sentry (2005) - Anti-piracy and business management services for the music and film industries
- DMDSecure (2005) - server software for digital rights management
- Eracom (2005) - HSMs and hard drive encryption software
- Ingrian Networks (April 2008) - Database application for the information security suite
- Beep Science (June 2008) - Digital Rights Management software for the cellular sector
- Aladdin (March 2009) - encryption company, security for computers
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Safenet, Inc .: Annual Report 2005, Format 10-K. Retrieved January 25, 2009 .
- ↑ gemalto.com: Gemalto to acquire SafeNet, the worldwide leader in data and software protection
- ↑ Gemalto's website has moved to Thales | Thales Group. Retrieved June 17, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Gemalto acquires SafeNet . info-point-security.com. Retrieved May 8, 2015.