Invincea

Invincea, Inc. was a company that offered a suite of endpoint protection products. Originally called Secure Command, LLC, Invincea Inc. was a venture backed software company that provided malware threat detection, prevention, and analysis to stop advanced threats.[1] It was acquired by Sophos in February 2017.[2][3][4]

Invincea

Former type	Subsidiary
Founder	Anup K. Ghosh
Defunct	April 16, 2018
Headquarters	Fairfax , United States
Key people	Anup K. Ghosh (Founder & CEO) Dana Mariano (Chief Financial Officer) Norm Laudermilch (Chief Operations Officer)
Services	Computer security
Parent	Sophos
Subsidiaries	Invincea Labs
Website	Archived February 25, 2018, at the Wayback Machine

History

Founded in 2006, by Dr. Anup Ghosh, the company is headquartered Fairfax, Virginia.[5] Major investors include Dell Ventures, New Atlantic Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Aeris Capital & Harbert Venture Partners.[6]

In 2012, Invincea used a $21 million grant from DARPA to improve the security of the US military's Android-based devices such as tablet PCs and smart phones. The Invincea software secures data from unauthorized access and protects the device from malicious applications.[7]

In June 2013, Dell announced an OEM partnership with Invincea and began shipping a new endpoint security solution dubbed “Dell Data Protection | Protected Workspace” on all of its commercial tablets and PCs worldwide. Dell Data Protection included Invincea container technology to put a shield - or virtualized container - around each browser or application instance to protect it from the rest of the device and the network on which it resides.[8][9]

In December 2013, Invincea acquired Sandboxie for an undisclosed amount. Sandboxie is a pioneer in the Windows Containment and sandboxing market, also called “container” technology, and the acquisition was made to consolidate Sandboxie and Invincea's own container solution.[10]

In May 2016, Invincea launched X by Invincea.[11] X by Invincea is a suite of products that protects endpoints by detecting and blocking known and unknown malware—without signatures in real-time. X combines deep learning, which is an advanced form of machine learning, behavioral analysis and the legacy Invincea container technology, also known as isolation technology, in one lightweight agent.[9] These three technologies (deep learning, behavioral analysis, and container technology) work side-by-side to provide better threat prevention without any negative impact on the workforce.

In February 2017, Invincea Inc. was acquired by Sophos,[2][3][4] a security software and hardware company.[5] In August of that year, subsidiary Invincea Labs was renamed Two Six Labs.[12]

In January 2018, Sophos announced that Invincea deep learning technology would be integrated with the Sophos Intercept X endpoint security product[13] and, on April 16, 2018, Invincea announced the end of sale of the X by Invincea suite of products. The Sophos products did not integrate the Invincea container technology. Support and maintenance will be available under existing contracts through December 31, 2019, at which point support and maintenance for Invincea products will cease.[14][15] Sophos did not include the Invincea container technology in Intercept X. For that reason, Sandboxie was released as a free tool and Sophos has transitioned the Sandboxie container technology to open source.[16]

References

1. "Invincea". Cruchbase.com. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
2. "Sophos Adds Advanced Machine Learning to Its Next-Generation Endpoint Protection Portfolio with Acquisition of Invincea". Sophos. 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
3. "Sophos grows anti-malware ensemble with Invincea". Sophos. 2017-02-08. Retrieved 2017-02-11. One may ask, if you already have great next-generation technology, why do you need Invincea’s technology?...Think of Invincea as the superhero that takes our ensemble to the next level – the entity that adds neural network-based machine learning to the team.
4. "Sophos to Acquire Invincea to Add Industry Leading Machine Learning to its Next Generation Endpoint Protection Portfolio". Invincea. 2017-02-08. Archived from the original on 2017-08-08. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
5. Gregg, Aaron (2017-02-08). "Fairfax City cyber start-up Invincea sells to a British firm for up to $120 million". Washington Post. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
6. "Dell Invests in 'Zero-day' Security Startup Invincea - The CIO Report - WSJ". WSJ. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
7. Acohido, Byron (4 July 2012). "Military enlists Invincea to beef up Android security". USA Today. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
8. Robert Westervelt. "Invincea Lands Container Deal On Dell Commercial Laptops". CRN. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
9. Preimesberger, Chris (16 May 2016). "Invincea Debuts New Invisible Endpoint Security Agent". eWeek. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
10. "Sandboxie acquired by invincea: what it means". gHacks Technology News. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
11. "Invincea Launches X-as-a-Service Managed Security". eWEEK. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
12. "Invincea Labs announces corporate name change to Two Six Labs". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). 14 August 2017. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
13. Wright, Tom (31 January 2018). "Sophos integrates $100m acquisition into new next-gen offering". CRN. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
14. "Invincea End of Service". 26 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
15. "Invincea: A Sophos Company". www.sophos.com. Retrieved 4 April 2019. On April 16th 2018 Sophos announced the immediate end of sale for all Invincea related products. Support and maintenance will be available under existing contracts through December 31st, 2019, at which point support and maintenance for Invincea products will cease.
16. "The Sandboxie Windows sandbox isolation tool is now open-source!". BleepingComputer. Retrieved 2020-06-15.