AT&T Cybersecurity is a developer of commercial and open source services to manage cyber attacks, including the Open Threat Exchange, the world's largest crowd-sourced computer-security platform. In July 2017, the platform had 65,000 participants who contributed more than 14 million threat indicators daily. The company has raised $116 million since it was founded as AlienVault in 2007. On July 10, 2018, it was acquired by AT&T Communications, becoming a wholly owned subsidiary when the transaction was completed on August 22, 2018. In February 2019, AlienVault was renamed AT&T Cybersecurity.
History
The OSSIM project began in 2003 and was started by Dominique Karg, Julio Casal, Ignacio Cabrera and Alberto Román. It became the basis of AlienVault, founded in 2007 in Madrid, Spain. The company hired the management team of Hewlett Packard's Fortify group in 2012, including AlienVault CEO Barmak Meftah, CTORoger Thornton and five others. In 2015, the company partnered with Intel to coordinate real-time threat information. A similar deal with Hewlett Packard was announced the same year. In 2015, AlienVault researchers released a study disclosing that Chinese hackers were circumventing popular privacy tools. AlienVault Open Threat Exchange had 26,000 participants in 140 countries reporting more than one million potential threats daily, as of June 2015. In February 2017, AlienVault released USM Anywhere, a SaaS security monitoring platform designed to centralize threat detection, incident response and compliance management of cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises environments from a cloud-based console. By July 2017, AlienVault Open Threat Exchange platform had 65,000 participants who contributed more than 14 million threat indicators daily. On July 10, 2018 AT&T announced to acquire AlienVault for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition was completed on August 22, 2018 and the company became a subsidiary of AT&T through its communications unit. On February 26, 2019, AlienVault was renamed AT&T Cybersecurity.
In August 2015, the firm raised $52 million to expand its security business. The round was led by Institutional Venture Partners and included GGV Capital, Kleiner Perkins, Trident Capital, and Jackson Square Ventures. The company said in 2015 that it was adding 300 to 400 new clients each quarter and it hired a Chief Financial Officer to help it prepare for a possible Initial Public Offering. By the end of fiscal year 2016, AlienVault recorded about 53 percent year-over-year sales growth and increased its install base by about 65 percent to approximately 5,000 commercial customers. AlienVault has raised $116 million since it was founded in 2007.
Awards
In 2017, AlienVault won the "BEST CLOUD COMPUTING SECURITY SOLUTION" for EMEA presented by SC Magazine UK. In the same year, Forbes featured AlienVault in their Forbes Cloud 100 list. Deloitte featured AlienVault in their Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list in 2015 and 2016. In 2015, AlienVault won the "Advanced Persistent Threat Solution of the Year" presented by The Computing Security Awards. In 2014, AlienVault was nominated for “Best SMB Security Product” and Jaime Blasco, Director of AlienVault Labs, was nominated for “Technology Hero of the Year” by V3, a technology industry publication.