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Empresas que fabricam o produto. A maior parte desta linha do tempo está aqui, porque a maioria das histórias da indústria é sobre alguém que construiu uma coisa e depois descobriu para que ela servia.

214 empresas

1847 - presentSiemens - the 1847 telegraph startupWerner von Siemens built the Indo-European telegraph line; the conglomerate's communications bloodline runs through EWSD, the Nokia JV, and Unify.serviços
1865 - presentNokia - from paper mill to network giantA 160-year arc: rubber boots to world phone leader to one of the three companies that build the world's mobile networks.
1875 - presentAno de fundação:Shibaura SeisakushoToshiba - the company that gave the world flashFujio Masuoka invented NOR and then NAND flash at Toshiba in the 1980s - every SSD, phone, and memory card descends from it; the T1100 started the laptop era.
1876 - presentEricsson - 150 years of telephonyFrom an 1876 Stockholm telegraph workshop to the AXE switch, GSM, Bluetooth, and today's 5G triumvirate.
1986 - presentInício da história:1886, BurroughsUnisys - computing's oldest bloodlinesBurroughs (1886) plus Sperry's UNIVAC - the ENIAC creators' company - merged in 1986: the deepest lineage in this section, still running ClearPath descendants today.serviços
1887 - presentAno de fundação:Electrical Factory N.V., part of Groeneveld, Van der Pol & CoGetronicsA Dutch electrical firm from the 1880s that ended up owning what was left of Wang Laboratories.serviços
1895 - presentAno de fundação:Northern Electric and ManufacturingNortel & Bay Networks - the giant that vanishedFrom 1895 Montreal to a third of Canada's stock index to the largest bankruptcy in Canadian history - and the $4.5B patent auction that ended it.
1897 - presentAno de fundação:the Wireless Telegraph & Signal CompanyMarconi - wireless itself, then the bubbleGuglielmo Marconi bridged the Atlantic in 1901; a century later the company bearing his name became telecom's starkest dot-com cautionary tale, carved up by Ericsson in 2006.operadora
1898 - presentAno de fundação:Compagnie Générale d'Électricité (Alcatel's root)Bell Labs, Lucent & Alcatel - the transistor's bloodlineThe transistor, information theory, Unix, the laser, cellular - ten Nobel Prizes of foundations, spun into Lucent in 1996, merged with Alcatel in 2006, carried into Nokia in 2016.padrões
1899 - presentAno de fundação:Nippon Electric Company, LimitedNEC - Japan's first joint ventureFounded 1899 with Western Electric capital; NEAX switched the world's calls, the PC-98 owned Japan's PC market, and the C&C vision named the convergence everyone now lives in.serviços
1906 - presentHoneywellA thermostat company that became a mainframe company and then went back to controlling physical things.
1906 - presentXerox - the company that fumbled the futureXerography built the empire; PARC invented Ethernet, the GUI, and laser printing - and networking's history runs through that lab.padrões
1910 - presentHitachi - the industrial giant that stores the worldFrom a mine's five-horsepower motor in 1910 to VSP arrays, HGST drives, and Britain's express trains - the conglomerate whose storage lineage runs through every SAN.serviços
1911 - presentAno de fundação:Computing-Tabulating-Recording CompanyIBM - the century companyPunched cards to System/360 to the PC to Red Hat: the company the rest of the industry defined itself against.serviços
1921 - presentItaltel - a century of somebody else's telephone networkFounded as a Siemens branch in 1921, and still building networks a hundred years later under different owners.serviços
1928 - presentMotorola - the radio centuryCar radios to the walkie-talkie to the first handheld cell call and the moon itself; split in 2011 into Solutions and a Mobility arm that passed through Google to Lenovo.
1930 - presentAno de fundação:Geophysical Service IncorporatedTexas Instruments - where the integrated circuit was demonstratedSemiconductor company whose employee demonstrated the first integrated circuit in 1958.
1931 - presentBull - Europe's computing championPunch-card wars against IBM in the 1930s, the prophetic Gamma 60, nationalization and privatization - and a final act building Europe's first exascale supercomputer.serviços
1935 - presentAno de fundação:Fuji Telecommunications Equipment ManufacturingFujitsu - Japan's computing standard-bearerBorn from a 1935 Fuji Electric spin-off (itself a Furukawa-Siemens venture), Fujitsu fought IBM with Amdahl, absorbed ICL, and built the K and Fugaku supercomputers.serviços
1939 - presentAno de fundação:Hewlett-PackardHPE Networking - HP, 3Com, Aruba, JuniperThe great consolidation: from the Addison Avenue garage to the $14B Juniper merger.
1939 - 2015Hewlett-Packard - the garage, the HP 9000 and the splitFounded in a Palo Alto garage in 1939; built the HP 9000 and HP-UX, OpenView and the LaserJet; merged with Compaq in 2002 and split in two in 2015.
1948 - presentFluke - the meters and certifiers in every field bagThe 87 multimeter and the DSX CableAnalyzer - and a 2015 three-way split (Fortive, NetScout, NetAlly) worth knowing cold.
1951 - 1999Wang Laboratories - the office before the PCAn Wang's core-memory patents funded a word-processing empire that owned the office of the late 1970s - and the PC unmade it inside a decade.
1952 - presentCrypto AG - when the vendor was the adversaryThe limiting case for every supply-chain argument: the intelligence services did not plant a backdoor, they owned the company.
1952 - presentElgin - the point of sale, and everything attached to itBrazilian manufacturer of commercial-automation equipment; recorded as the owner of Bematech.
1957 - 1998Digital Equipment Corporation - the minicomputer kingKen Olsen's PDP and VAX machines defined two decades of computing; DEC co-authored Ethernet and ended inside Compaq in 1998.
1976 - 2026Início da história:1961, Comm/Scope, a division of Superior ContinentalCommScope - the cable house that bought Bell Labs' structured-cabling brand, and sold it againCoaxial cable from Hickory, North Carolina, the SYSTIMAX structured-cabling brand bought from Avaya in 2004, and a 10.5 billion dollar sale to Amphenol in 2026.
1962 - presentCodex - modems, and the mathematics underneath themA company whose product was signal processing sold as a box, in the window a regulator had just opened.
1965 - presentAno de fundação:Liebert (Vertiv's physical-layer root)Cyclades, Avocent & Vertiv - the physical layer of uptimeA Brazilian-founded console-server pioneer, the KVM leaders, and Liebert's computer-room weather - consolidated into the company whose product is uptime itself.
1968 - 1999Data General - the soul of a new machineEdson de Castro left DEC to build the Nova; Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer immortalized the Eagle; CLARiiON storage carried the DNA into EMC in 1999.
1968 - presentAno de fundação:IntelIntel & AMD - Fairchild's children: the x86 rivalryThe 4004, Moore's Law, and the second source that wrote AMD64 - one entry, because neither story parses without the other.
1968 - presentIntel - the processor in the control planeFounded 1968 by Moore and Noyce; the x86 architecture, the first microprocessor, and the network interface everyone drives.
1969 - presentParadyne - the last miles of the analogue eraSqueezing usable data rates out of the copper that was already in the ground.
1969 - presentAMD - the company that bought its way into the networkFounded 1969; acquired Xilinx and Pensando in 2022 to reach the network adapter and the data processing unit.
1971 - presentHughes - the network where latency is a law of physicsGeostationary satellite: about a quarter of a second each way, and nothing will fix it.operadora
1972 - presentSAP - five engineers against the mainframeEx-IBM founders built the ERP category in 1972; R/3 conquered the client-server world and HANA reinvented the core.
1972 - presentProteon - token ring, and the road not takenA serious alternative to Ethernet, built by people who thought deterministic access mattered more than simplicity.
1974 - 1992The Brazilian market reserve (Cobra, Scopus, Itautec)A policy that failed at its stated goal and succeeded at one nobody wrote down.padrões
1974 - 1997Tandem Computers - the machine that never stopsJimmy Treybig's NonStop architecture made fault tolerance a product in 1976; it still runs stock exchanges and card networks today, as HPE NonStop.
1974 - presentCobra - the computer the country built, and the operating system it was told to stopComputadores e Sistemas Brasileiros, founded 1974; now BB Tecnologia e Servicos.
1975 - presentMicrosoftThe platform company: Windows, Azure, and Microsoft 365.
1975 - presentMicom - concentrators, and what they were really sellingFewer leased lines for the same number of terminals, which is an argument a finance director understands.
1976 - presentUSRoboticsWon three times with proprietary protocols, and gave up all three the moment a standard arrived.
1976 - presentHCLTechStarted because IBM left India, and forty-one years later bought IBM's software.serviços · treinamento
1976 - presentAppleLost the first round of the personal computer market badly, and won every round after it.
1977 - 1993Tandy and RadioShackOutsold Apple three to one with a worse computer, because it had seven thousand shops.revenda
1977 - presentOracle - the database empireThe first commercial SQL database, four decades of acquisitions - Sun included - and 2025's handover to co-CEOs for the AI era.
1979 - 2016EMC CorporationMade storage a category of its own, then became the largest technology acquisition in history.
1979 - present3Com - Ethernet leaves the labBob Metcalfe commercialized his own PARC invention; EtherLink wired the PC era, Palm rode along, and the story ended at HP in 2010.
1979 - presentUngermann-Bass - the first company that only did networksRalph Ungermann left Zilog to build networks and nothing else, which nobody had done as a business before.
1979 - presentSytek - broadband LANs, and NetBIOSRan local networks over cable television plant, and left behind an interface that outlived the company by decades.
1980 - 1991Ashton-Tate - dBASE II and IIIA football-pool database written in 8080 assembly became dBASE II, 70 per cent of the microcomputer database market, and one of the Big Three; then dBASE IV shipped too early.
1981 - presentBridge Communications - the box between the networksBuilt the equipment that joined incompatible networks, then merged with 3Com in 1987.
1981 - presentProgress Software - the company that owns the debugger, the load balancer and MOVEitAn American software company that acquired Telerik, Ipswitch and Kemp, and in 2023 became the origin of one of the largest single data-theft campaigns ever recorded.
1982 - 1995Lotus DevelopmentForecast a million dollars in its first year, made fifty-three, and shipped software still running four decades later.
1982 - presentSymantecThe security brand of a generation, now Broadcom's enterprise line.
1982 - 2010Sun Microsystems - the network is the computerFour Stanford-orbit founders, SPARC, Solaris, Java - the dot in dot-com, absorbed by Oracle in 2010.
1982 - 2016Silicon Graphics - the geometry of HollywoodJim Clark's geometry engines rendered Jurassic Park and invented OpenGL; the name ended at HPE in 2016.
1982 - 2002Compaq - the clone that became the kingThree ex-TI engineers sketched a portable on a placemat, clean-roomed the IBM BIOS, and built the fastest company to a billion dollars - then bought DEC and merged into HP.
1982 - presentExcelan - TCP/IP on a card, before it was obviousSelling TCP/IP to corporations in 1982, which required believing a research network's protocol had a commercial future.
1982 - presentRSA Security - the company that fought Clipper, then shipped Dual_ECNine years with a suspect random number generator as the default, a 10 million dollar contract, and a denial that answered a different question.
1983 - 2013Cabletron Systems and EnterasysSold cable assemblies out of a garage, grew into Cisco's most serious rival, then dismantled itself on purpose.
1983 - presentNovell - the network operating systemNetWare owned the LAN era and IPX ran the world's offices; the lineage ended at OpenText in 2023.
1983 - presentBanyan Systems - the directory pioneerVINES and StreetTalk delivered a true global directory service years before NDS or Active Directory - and lost anyway; the idea won everywhere.
1983 - 2009Borland - Turbo Pascal and the Big Four yearsSold a $49.95 Pascal compiler by mail order in 1983, made Forrester's Big Four, bought dBASE, shipped Delphi, renamed itself Inprise, and ended inside Micro Focus.
1983 - presentTOTVS - the software most Brazilian companies actually run onBrazilian enterprise resource planning vendor, founded in 1983 and listed on B3.
1983 - presentMicrosiga - the bet that microcomputers would replace mainframesBrazilian business-software company founded in 1983, renamed TOTVS in 2005.
1984 - presentCisco SystemsDid not invent the router, but was the first to sell one that spoke everybody's protocol at once.
1984 - presentAno de fundação:NetScout SystemsThe Sniffer lineage - Network General to NetScoutThe 1986 Sniffer made protocol analysis a profession; through Dolch luggables, Network Associates, and Arbor's DDoS telemetry, the whole bloodline converged on NetScout.
1984 - presentAno de fundação:Dell (PC's Limited)Dell & Force10 - the direct model and its fabricA dorm-room assembler became the datacenter's broadest supplier - and the 10GbE pioneer it absorbed in 2011 became its switching lineage.
1984 - 1992Nantucket - ClipperThe compiler that made dBASE III programs into standalone DOS applications; millions were built between 1985 and 1992, then the owner missed Windows.
1984 - presentCDW - the reseller that sells to everyoneBorn from a classified ad in 1984; the American archetype of the value-added reseller, and the place an F5 lab licence cost 108 dollars and a credit card.
1984 - 2023Xilinx - the chip you finish writing yourselfField-programmable gate array pioneer, founded 1984, acquired by AMD in 2022.
1985 - presentSophosStarted in Oxford the year before the first PC virus spread, and is still here under its own name.
1985 - presentAno de fundação:Zhongxing Semiconductor Co., Ltd.ZTE - China's other giantShenzhen 1985, top-four in 5G - and the 2018 denial order that made supply-chain dependency the industry's most vivid lesson.
1985 - presentBeyondTrustFounded as Symark in 1985, renamed for a company it bought in 2009, and merged into a company that took its name in 2018.
1985 - presentSynOptics - the other half of Bay NetworksEthernet over telephone wiring, which turned a coaxial bus into something a building could actually be wired for.
1985 - presentQualcomm - a trucking service paid for the mobile networkFounded 1985; funded its CDMA research with a satellite messaging system sold to hauliers.
1986 - presentMadge Networks - Token Ring's standard-bearerFrom a Buckinghamshire farm to beating IBM in court at IBM's own game - and down with the protocol it championed: 'the Betamax of the networking world.'
1986 - presentWellfleet - one half of Bay NetworksThe router company that merged with a hub company, producing a business that was briefly the credible alternative to Cisco.
1986 - presentD-Link - the adapter in the machine, not the rackTaiwanese networking manufacturer founded 1986 as Datex Systems; first networking company listed in Taiwan.
1987 - presentAno de fundação:McAfee AssociatesMcAfee, FireEye & Mandiant - the road to TrellixThree security pioneers, one private-equity remix: Trellix and Skyhigh under STG, Mandiant inside Google Cloud, McAfee consumer private.
1987 - presentHuawei - the Shenzhen ascentFrom a 1987 PBX reseller to the world's largest telecom equipment maker - and the center of the decade's biggest technology-policy storm.
1987 - presentDolch (Kontron / Azonix lineage)The rugged luggable the Sniffer lived in.
1987 - presentAno de fundação:Allied Telesis (founded as Allied Telesyn)The access & home fleet - Netgear, TP-Link, Zyxel, Asus & Askey, Allied TelesisThe boxes everyone actually owns: the first hop of most packets on Earth, told as one fleet.
1987 - presentAllied TelesisJapan's global Ethernet workhorse, from media converters up.
1987 - presentTSMC - the factory behind most of the silicon on this siteThe first pure-play semiconductor foundry, founded 1987, manufacturing designs it does not own.
1987 - presentQuest Software - sold to buy something elseSystems and database management vendor founded 1987, bought by Dell, then sold onward twice.
1988 - presentTrend Micro - the vendor that buys the flaws it defends againstFounded on a dongle, run by a co-founder since 2005, owner of the Zero Day Initiative - and the source of a 2005 update that did more damage in ninety minutes than the worm it targeted.
1989 - presentAno de fundação:ASUS (ASUSTeK Computer)ASUS + AskeyThe motherboard empire and its network-communications arm.
1989 - presentZyxelThe modem-era first-mover from Hsinchu.
1989 - 1996Tivoli Systems - management for everybody else's machinesFounded by IBM people told to manage only IBM machines; bought by IBM seven years later for $800 million.
1990 - presentGenesysTwo sons of Soviet emigres met at a card game and decided the phone call and the customer record should arrive together.
1990 - 2019Polycom - the triangle on every conference tableThe company that put a triangular speakerphone on every conference table, bought by a headset maker, renamed, and bought again by HP.
1990 - presentBematech - a dissertation that became the tillBrazilian commercial-automation manufacturer founded in 1990 in Curitiba, known for fiscal printers.
1990 - presentArm - the processor almost nobody buys from ArmFormed 1990; licenses a processor architecture rather than selling processors.
1991 - presentBroadcom - the silicon inside almost everybody's switchMerchant switching silicon supplier, and the company most networking equipment on this timeline depends on without saying so.
1992 - presentNetAppNamed itself after exactly what it sold, which turned out to be most of the strategy.
1992 - presentCiena - the company that taught fiber to carry colorsThe first commercial DWDM deployment (Sprint, 1996) multiplied installed fiber sixteenfold - and Ciena has compounded the optical layer ever since, Nortel inheritance included.
1993 - presentAudioCodesMade the codec, then the board, then the gateway, then the software - and kept the same chief executive for thirty-three years.
1993 - presentCheck Point Software TechnologiesPatented stateful inspection, invented the firewall market, and then watched its own alumni build the competition.
1993 - presentRed HatEnterprise open source: RHEL, OpenShift, Ansible.
1993 - presentNvidia - the GPU company that runs the fabricCUDA's decade-early bet, the AlexNet ignition, Mellanox - the network's biggest customer became one of its vendors.
1993 - presentSupermicro - the hardware underneath somebody else's brandA great deal of infrastructure is built on boards whose maker is not on the bezel.
1993 - presentEPAM Systems - the corridor between two worlds, and what a war did to itFounded in a New Jersey apartment and a Minsk basement in 1993; by 2022 it had 14,000 engineers in Ukraine and 18,000 in Belarus and Russia, and the founder's silence became the story.
1993 - 1999Xylan - the fastest growing internetworking company there had beenLAN switching company founded 1993 in Calabasas, acquired by Alcatel in 1999.
1994 - presentWebsense and ForcepointA reseller that became a filter, then a bubble IPO, then a defence contractor's cyber arm, then private equity again.
1994 - presentNetscape - the company that opened the webClark and Andreessen's Navigator took the internet mainstream; SSL, JavaScript, and the cookie were invented here - the browser lost the war, the inventions won everything.
1994 - presentNetcraftThe company that has counted the web's servers every month since 1995, and now takes down a third of the world's phishing.serviços
1995 - 2013AltaVistaBuilt to stress-test a processor, it became the best search engine on the web - and was then turned into a portal.
1999 - presentInício da história:1995, The Apache GroupThe Apache Software FoundationThe web server that ran the web, built by eight people trading patches by email.padrões
1995 - presentAno de fundação:Brocade Communications SystemsBrocade & Foundry - the Broadcom diasporaTwo 1990s pioneers, one 2017 dismemberment: SAN to Broadcom, data center to Extreme, campus and Wi-Fi to CommScope.
1995 - 2025TrustwaveThirty years of managed security from Chicago, owned in turn by a Singapore carrier, a Chertoff fund and a spun-out AT&T business.serviços
1995 - presentMarvell - founded on a disk drive, ended up in the networkSilicon company incorporated in 1995 by three founders, now a supplier of networking and infrastructure chips.
1996 - 2000SixDegrees.comThe first social network, and it failed because not enough people were online yet.
1996 - presentF5Named after a tornado, and spent thirty years moving up the stack from ports to applications.
1996 - presentExtreme NetworksNetworking manufacturer of enterprise switching, wireless and cloud-managed network software.
1996 - presentNetScreen and Juniper NetworksOne firewall company whose alumni went on to found or shape most of the others.
2000 - 2006Início da história:1996, Yago SystemsRiverstone NetworksSpun out of Cabletron to chase the metro Ethernet boom, and ran out of road when the boom stopped.
1996 - presentMikroTik - Latvia's quiet giantRouterOS on commodity hardware: the company that made carrier-grade routing affordable everywhere - and stayed independent.
1996 - presentAno de fundação:CacheFlow (Blue Coat Systems from 2002)Blue Coat & Packeteer - the chokepoint companiesCacheFlow's pivot made the proxy a security platform; PacketShaper created traffic shaping - together, the prehistory of the SSE category.
1996 - presentWatchGuard - the red box that made the firewall an applianceThe 1996 Firebox turned security from a project into an object - and the mid-market has run on it since.
1996 - presentNETGEARThe company that put networking on the retail shelf.
1996 - presentTP-LinkThe volume king of consumer networking.
1997 - presentIxia and KeysightNetwork test, bought by the part of Hewlett-Packard that Hewlett and Packard actually started.
1997 - presentKasperskyWorld-class malware research and a geopolitical problem, in the same company, both real.
1997 - presentPaesslerPRTG: the network monitoring standard of the mid-market.
1997 - presentRadware - the Zisapel lineageBorn of Israel's RAD Group in 1997; the ADC and DDoS specialist that rescued Alteon from Nortel's wreckage for ~$18M.
1998 - presentGoogleRanked pages by who linked to them rather than how often they said the word - and was nearly sold to AltaVista for a million dollars.
1998 - presentAkamai TechnologiesAnswered a question Tim Berners-Lee posed about congestion, and the answer became most of how the web is delivered.serviços
1998 - presentDatacom - Brazil's networking manufacturerThe hometown entry: carrier gear, GPON, and a national OS, designed and built in Rio Grande do Sul since 1998.
1998 - 2012eEye Digital Security - Retina, and the hole Code Red came throughThe Irvine company whose researchers found the IIS flaw that Code Red exploited in 2001, and whose Retina scanner ended up inside BeyondTrust.
1998 - presentTamoSoft - TamoGraphA privately held Christchurch company whose TamoGraph does passive, active and predictive Wi-Fi surveys on Windows and macOS.
1999 - presentFreeRADIUSAuthenticates about a third of the people on the internet, and has had the same project leader since 1999.padrões
1999 - presentQualysDelivered security scanning as a service in 2000, before anybody had a word for that.
1999 - presentSolarWindsSold the software that watches everything, which is exactly why somebody wanted it.
1999 - 2026CyberArkPrivileged access and identity security.
2004 - 2020Início da história:1999, the OpenNMS project at PlatformWorksThe OpenNMS Group - OpenNMSOne of the oldest open source network management platforms, started in 1999, with a company behind it since 2004 and NantHealth as owner since 2020.
2007 - presentInício da história:1999, NetSaint, Ethan Galstad's projectNagios - NetSaint, Nagios Core and Nagios EnterprisesEthan Galstad's NetSaint of 1999 became Nagios in 2002 and a St. Paul company in 2007; its plugin model shaped a generation of monitoring.
1999 - presentInfoblox - DDI, and why it is one productDNS, DHCP and address management are three protocols and one source of truth.
1999 - presentTippingPoint - four owners, and the bug bounty that outlived them allAn Austin IPS company that changed hands three times in eleven years. What survived every sale was not the appliance but the research programme attached to it.
1999 - presentSalesforce - the company that declared the end of softwareFounded in a rented apartment in 1999 with a crossed-out word on a badge; the customers' objection was the word control, and it was the right objection, and they bought it anyway.
2001 - 2019Início da história:1999, Cain v1.0oxid.it - one man, one tool, and a site that is no longer thereMassimiliano Montoro published Cain & Abel from a personal Italian domain for over a decade; the software taught a generation how switched networks really behave, and the documentation now exists only in the Internet Archive.
2000 - 2010ArcSightDecided in advance what mattered, which is the opposite of what its main rival decided.
2000 - presentRapid7Bought the industry's best-known attack toolkit, which is the opposite of what its main competitor did with open source.
2000 - presentFortinetFounded by the man who had already built one firewall company, on the same argument taken further.
2000 - 2007IronPort SystemsWorked out that the useful question about an email was not what it contained but who sent it.
2000 - presentAvayaEnterprise communications: Aura, IP Office, and contact center.
2000 - presentKemp TechnologiesPriced the load balancer for the administrator rather than the committee, and went virtual before the market did.
2000 - 2018EkahauWi-Fi design and survey software born in a University of Helsinki machine learning group, sold to Ookla in 2018 and carried into Accenture in 2026.
2000 - 2019Corvil - the microsecond, measured in DublinA Dublin company that turned packet capture into the trading floor's own measurements, and sold itself to a New York infrastructure provider in 2019.
2001 - 2011Q1 Labs - QRadarA University of New Brunswick spinout whose security intelligence software became IBM QRadar, and then two products with two owners.
2005 - presentInício da história:2001, Zabbix, Alexei Vladishev's internal monitoring toolZabbixAlexei Vladishev's internal tool of 2001 became a Riga company in 2005 and a monitoring platform with offices on four continents, free and open source throughout.
2001 - presentFireMon - watching the policy changeThe value is not the audit; it is noticing the day after the audit.
2001 - presentDyn - managed DNS, and the day it went downManaged DNS and dynamic DNS provider, later acquired by Oracle.serviços
2001 - presentBlueCat Networks - DDI, from the operations sideDNS, DHCP and address management sold as network operations rather than as infrastructure.
2002 - presentTenableBuilt on a scanner a seventeen-year-old wrote, and then closed the source to fund the company.
2002 - presentPing IdentityBet early that identity would have to work between organisations, not just inside one.
2002 - presentRiverbedWAN optimization pioneer turned observability company.
2002 - presentImperva - from WebCohort to ThalesThe WAF pioneer founded by a Check Point co-founder, now the application-security arm of a French defense giant.
2002 - presentSkybox Security - attack paths, and an endingModelled how an attacker would traverse the network you documented, and was absorbed by a competitor.
2002 - presentProofpoint - the mail gateway, stillEmail remained the way in long after the industry stopped finding it interesting.
2002 - presentProcera Networks - the company that reads the trafficDeep packet inspection vendor, taken private in 2015 and merged into Sandvine in 2017.
2003 - 2024SplunkNamed after caving, because that is what searching your own logs felt like.
2003 - presentBarracuda Networks - security for the estates nobody writes aboutBuilt a business where the budget is small, the staff is one person, and the threat is identical.
2003 - presentLogRhythm - the SIEM problem, stated honestlyCollecting everything is easy; the cost is that somebody has to read it.
2003 - presentPortSwigger - the consultant's side project that became the standardDafydd Stuttard wrote tools to speed up his own consulting in a Cheshire market town, gave one of them an arbitrary name, and it became the default instrument of web application testing.
2004 - presentArista NetworksCloud-scale data-center and campus networking (EOS).
2004 - presentA10 NetworksAttacked application delivery from the throughput flank, where the traffic is heaviest.
2004 - presentAlgoSec - policy from the application's point of viewAsks which application a rule serves, which is the question the rule does not record.
2004 - presentEfficientIP - DDI with the security case attachedDDI vendor whose positioning leads with DNS security rather than address management.
2004 - presentServiceNow - the help desk that became the workflow of the enterpriseFounded alone, at fifty, by a chief technology officer whose previous company had collapsed in accounting fraud; a ticketing system that grew into the platform other systems are wired through.
2004 - presentRuckus - six owners in ten yearsWireless networking company founded 2004, passed through Brocade, Arris, CommScope, Vistance and Belden.
2005 - presentDynatraceRewrote its entire platform from scratch under private-equity ownership, which is not how that story usually goes.
2005 - presentBrightCloudThe classification layer underneath other people's security products, including its founder's former employer's competitors.
2005 - presentPalo Alto NetworksFounded by a Check Point alumnus on the argument that port numbers had stopped meaning anything.
2005 - presentUbiquiti - enterprise features at prosumer pricesairMAX armed the WISPs, UniFi made the controller model a $200 purchase - and two incidents every security reader should know cold.
2005 - 2022MetaGeek - Wi-Spy, inSSIDer and ChanalyzerA nights-and-weekends spectrum analyser from Boise that became the Wi-Fi field kit, then changed hands twice in two years.
2005 - presentTufin - firewall policy, read back to youA company whose product is understanding the rules you already wrote.
2005 - presentSailPoint - governance, which is the unglamorous half of identityAuthentication asks who you are. Governance asks why you still have that access.
2005 - presentOpenDNS - the resolver that became a security productA public DNS resolver acquired by Cisco and rebuilt as Umbrella.
2005 - present3CX - the first cascading supply chain compromiseAn employee's personal download of a retired trading app from another vendor became the way into the build servers of a telephony product with twelve million users.
2006 - presentVeeamThe side project ate the main business, twice - and a previous exit was the only funding round for a decade.
2006 - presentAmazon Web ServicesThe cloud platform that defined the category.data center · serviços
2007 - presentOffSec (Offensive Security)Gives the tool away and charges for the proof that you can use it.treinamento
2007 - presentZscalerArgued that if users are not in the office, the security stack should not be either.
2007 - 2020MobileIronMobile device management pioneer, now part of Ivanti.
2008 - presentSagemcom - the box in the house nobody choseFrench manufacturer of broadband gateways, set-top boxes and meters, carved out of Safran in 2008.
2009 - presentNutanixHybrid multicloud and hyper-converged infrastructure.
2009 - presentCloudflareBegan as a project asking where spam came from, and became infrastructure after users asked it to stop the spam instead.serviços
2009 - presentOktaCloud identity for 10,000 organisations, the $6.5 billion Auth0 purchase, and the 2022 and 2023 breaches that showed what an identity provider's support desk is worth to an attacker.
2009 - presentXZ Utils - the supply chain with no supplierA two-year campaign against a burnt-out volunteer maintainer, caught by one engineer who noticed half a second of latency.
2009 - presentRaspberry Pi - the machine you are allowed to breakSingle-board computer created to get computing back into teaching, now embedded across networking and lab work.treinamento
2010 - presentDatadogThe founding problem was two teams looking at different data during the same outage.
2010 - presentOsciumOklahoma City instruments for the field tech's tablet, and since 2024 the home of Wi-Spy, inSSIDer and Chanalyzer.
2010 - presentFreshworks - the help desk that started from a Hacker News commentFounded in a 700-square-foot warehouse in Chennai in 2010 by a Zoho product head who read that a competitor had raised prices; the first Indian software-as-a-service company to list on Nasdaq.
2011 - presentCrowdStrikeBuilt on the argument that you should hunt the attacker rather than the malware - then proved, in one morning, what a lightweight agent everywhere really means.
2011 - presentAuvikWaterloo's cloud network management for MSPs: 100,000 networks, 12 million devices, and a $250 million cheque from Great Hill Partners.
2012 - presentCredlyVerifies the credential, as its owner verifies the person - and the small company bought the big one's product before the big one bought it.treinamento
2012 - presentElasticChanged its licence to stop a cloud provider, got forked, and changed it back three years later.
2012 - presentNetskopeStarted from the observation that nobody knew which cloud applications their own staff were using.
2012 - presentVersa Networks - the SASE independentTwo ex-Riverstone, ex-Juniper brothers building unified SASE - one of the last large independents in a consolidated market.
2012 - 2025CybereasonThe endpoint detection company that found the NotPetya kill switch, raised more than $850 million, and ended inside a services company.
2013 - presentNozomi NetworksBuilt on the constraint that you cannot scan an industrial network without risking the plant.
2013 - presentIllumioAssumed the attacker is already inside, and made the whole product about what happens next.
2014 - presentInício da história:2013, Grafana, Torkel Ödegaard's open source dashboardGrafana LabsA dashboard side project of 2013 that became the open observability platform: $270 million at a $6 billion valuation in 2024.
2014 - presentKentikThe people who ran the networks built the tool they could not buy.
2014 - 2020Pulse SecureA company created to hold a product line older than itself.
2015 - presentOpenAIFounded as a non-profit hedge against AI being controlled by one company, and now largely owned by one company.
2017 - presentIvantiA 2017 company assembled from forty years of other people's software, and the place two vendors on this site came to rest.
2019 - presentCyble - selling what it also gives awayThreat intelligence company covering dark web monitoring, attack surface management and takedowns.
2021 - presentAnthropicFounded by people who left OpenAI over where it was going, and built around the bet that safety research and frontier capability have to happen in the same building.
2024 - presentLevelBlueAT&T's security services business, spun out in 2024, which bought Trustwave, Cybereason and Aon's cyber consultants inside eighteen months.serviços
- presentSisco - Sistemas e ComputadoresBrazilian computer manufacturer of the market-reserve era, closed in 2001.

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