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CORERO NETWORK SECURITY
Official Website: http://www.corero.com
Official about page: http://www.corero.com/en/company/corero
Country: United States
Location: HQ: 1 Cabot Road, Hudson, MA 01749
Founded: 1997
Business: IP filtering, geolocation tracking, country and IP blocking (censorship), Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Defense

Intrusion Prevention

Contact
Phone: +1 978 212 1500
Fax: +1 978 212 1600

Background

Stock Symbol: London Stock Exchange: CNS

Global Office Locations include USA, United Kingdom, France, Spain & Latam, EMEA Headquarters (London, United Kingdom)

"Corero Network Security plc designs, develops, and delivers software products to the financial institutions, and business and education markets primarily in Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific.

The company offers Blue Curve, a software solution that presents financial data for analysts to make informed opinions on market conditions and trends. It enhances the process of content creation, content approval, and publishing.

The company also provides Radica, a software system that addresses the needs of asset servicing operations for the banking and securities sector; Resource Financials, a suite of business applications for eProcurement, project costing, HR, payroll, and continuing professional development; and Resource EMS, a management information system for the education sector, which manages the Learner life-cycle.

In addition, it provides computer services. The company was formerly known as Corero plc and changed its name to Corero Network Security plc in June 2011. The company was founded in 1991 and is based in Rickmansworth, the United Kingdom." Businessweek


Products

  • SecureWatch PLUS is a comprehensive suite of DDoS-defense, configuration optimization, monitoring and response services. SecureWatch PLUS is emblematic of Corero services: a continuous, collaborative DDoS defense program engaging the customer and their trusted partner, Corero.


Countries using products

Reports

Tech & Business Partners

Technology Partners include:

  • Webroot delivers cloud-based endpoint security solutions for businesses as well as home and mobile users. Webroot SecureAnywhere provides the lightest, fastest and most effective approach to endpoint security powered by a single, cloud-based threat analysis and management engine. The company also licenses the security intelligence that it generates to strategic partners including Cisco, Corero, Microsoft, F5 Networks, Palo Alto Networks, Juniper Networks, and Sourcefire. Founded in 1997, privately held Webroot is headquartered in Colorado with operations across North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region. For more information, visit http://www.webroot.com.


  • Kaspersky Lab is the world's largest privately-held Internet Security company, providing comprehensive protection against all forms of IT threats such as viruses, spyware, hackers and spam. The company's products provide in-depth computer defense for more than 300 million systems around the globe, including home and mobile users, small and medium sized businesses and large enterprises. Kaspersky technology is also incorporated inside the products and services of nearly 100 industry-leading IT, networking, communications and applications solution vendors.


  • ArcSight is a leading provider of enterprise software solutions that enable large organizations to better manage their security function by integrating and optimizing the management of diverse security devices deployed across a network. By delivering complete aggregation, correlation, investigation, resolution and reporting - all within a single solution - ArcSight provides a coordinated infrastructure that maximizes security results while decreasing overall costs. ArcSight's TruThreat™ Risk Correlation allows enterprises to combine vulnerability assessment data and asset business value with real time event data, improving their ability to detect true threats and attacks and react to them in real time. ArcSight's customers include major financial services organizations, government agencies and managed service suppliers such as Union Bank of California, Sandia Laboratory, and Corio.


  • Bradford Networks is dedicated to solving the security challenges facing institutions, enterprises and government by developing innovative network access control products and services that deliver automated security solutions by leveraging existing network infrastructures.


  • eIQnetworks founded the Unified Threat and Compliance (UTC) market, and is the only company in the industry to offer a comprehensive platform to provide real-time situational awareness of customers' security and compliance risks. UTC solves the problem of information gaps that are created by point security solutions, which can expose companies to security threats and impact regulatory compliance. eIQ's UTC delivers full-context investigative analysis through cross-correlation of all data, proactively identifies misconfigured systems, and detects and alerts on security policy violations.


  • Netronome Systems provides the industry's highest-performance transparent proxy for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) network communications. When used with Top Layer IPS 5500, The Netronome SSL Inspector™ provides the ability to decrypt SSL flows and analyze session plaintext, allowing the IPS 5500 to be deployed with the highest levels of flow analysis and visibility while still maintaining multi-gigabit, line-rate network performance for compliance.


  • Q1 Labs' Qvision is an innovation in network behavioral analysis providing real-time collection, visualization, and alerting on an enterprise's network activity. Qvision monitors network use and alerts on user defined behavioral changes.


  • RSA provides the industry's first logging appliance, the Network Intelligence Engine. The high-availability appliance collects log data from security and network devices to create a complete picture of network usage, verify security policy compliance, generate alerts for possible security breaches, provide correlation of data across devices, and analyze and report on network performance.


  • Tenable Network Security is the leader in unified security monitoring and creator of the popular and award-winning Nessus Vulnerability Scanner. Tenable provides agentless solutions for continuous monitoring of vulnerabilities, configurations, data leakage, and log analysis and compromise detection. Tenable's award-winning products are utilized by many Global 2000 organizations and Government agencies to proactively minimize network risk.


  • Tilera Corporation is the industry leader in highly scalable embedded multicore processors. Tilera's TILE64 processor delivers the highest performance and power efficiency of any multicore processor on the market, and couples this with outstanding programming flexibility. Tilera's products include a family of multicore processors, turnkey appliance boards and a complete set of standards-based multicore software development tools. Tilera's processor and boards directly address the need in the embedded market for higher performance and more services in a small footprint.


  • SS8 Networks to meet government mandated requirements for the lawful interception of communications traffic. SS8 Networks is the recognized leader in the North American lawful intercept market and a worldwide provider of regulatory compliant solutions. Their Xcipio product portfolio includes all three functions of the lawful intercept (LI) architecture: access, delivery and collection. Xcipio is deployed in the networks of top wireline, wireless and cable carriers and provides a solution that serves over 10,000 law enforcement agents daily. Xcipio solutions exist for PSTN, ISPs, wireless data and voice, as well non-traditional solutions that include satellite voice carriers, satellite ISPs and WIFI hotspots. SS8 Networks is head-quartered in San Jose, CA, with sales, engineering and support presence worldwide.


  • netForensics security compliance management solutions help stop the security attacks—increasing in number and sophistication—that threaten organizations today. They pioneered security information management (SIM) in 1999 and today, they deliver the most comprehensive security decision support available, backed by their powerful, patented SIM platform. But netForensics doesn’t just solve security compliance challenges—they also provide the proof needed to address the myriad of regulatory and internal governance requirements.


  • NetWitness offers network forensics solutions for Federal Law Enforcement, intelligence professionals and private industry. NetWitness' flagship product, NetWitness NextGen, is a network capture & analysis tool capable of providing complete network coverage for monitoring the "trusted insider." When coupled with the company's 3500 series & DCFD offerings, NetWitness becomes a powerful backbone traffic monitor capable of rebuilding web-pages, chat sessions, playing back VOIP and numerous other application protocols.


People Responsible

Board Members

  • Mr. Andrew Douglas Miller, Chief Operating Officer of Corero Plc

Mr. Miller has been an Executive Director since August, 2010.

Mr. Miller served as a Director of Active Symbols, Inc., Computech Resources Inc., Eyealike, Inc., Infrastructure Applications Limited, Logicalis Computing Solutions Finance Limited, Logicalis Computing Solutions Limited, Logicalis Group Limited, Logicalis Limited, Logicalis UK Limited, Logicalis Uruguay SA, Logicalis US Holdings, Inc., Logicalis, Inc., Promon Logicalis Latin America Limited, Satelcom Limited, TBC Group Limited and TBC Limited.


  • Jens Montanana,

Datatec Limited Age:51


He has been a Non-executive Director of Corero plc since August 2010.

Mr. Jens Peter Montanana founded DataTec Ltd., the parent company of Westcon Group Inc., in February 1986 and has been its Chief Executive Officer since February 1986. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Datatec Ltd. from December 1994 to November 2001. He has been a Director of Westcon Group, Inc. since August 1998. He has been an Executive Director of Datatec Limited since October 6, 1994. Mr. Montanana serves as a Director of Westcon SA (Pty) Ltd.

Mr. Montanana served as the Chief Executive Officer of Logicalis Group Limited from October 2002 to March 1, 2007. Mr. Montanana has been the Chairman of the Board of Logicalis Group Limited since March 1, 2007. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Logicalis, Inc.

From 1989 to 1993, he served as the Managing Director and Vice-President of US Robotics (UK) operations, a wholly owned subsidiary of US Robotics, now 3Com.

In 1993, he co-founded US start up Xedia Corp. in Boston, MA, which was subsequently sold to Lucent Corp.

He serves as the Chairman of Corero Plc of Top Layer Networks, Inc.

He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of African Legend Indigo (Pty) Ltd.

He serves as a Director of ActiveSymbols, Inc., Analysys Consulting Limited, Analysys Limited, Analysys Mason Group Limited, Analysys Research Limited, Catalyst IT Partners Limited, Computec Resources, Inc., Comstor Belgium NV, Comstor Group Limited, Comstor Limited, Comstor Malaysia SDN. BHD, Comstor Pte Limited, Comstor Sweden AB, Datatec International Holdings Limited, Datatec International Limited, Equire Inc., Eyealike, Inc., Hawke Systems Limited, Intact Integrated Services Limited, LAN Systems (Pty) Limited, LAN Systems Ltd., Logicalis Computing Solutions Limited, Logicalis Deutschland GmbH, Logicalis Group Services Limited, Logicalis Leasing, Limited, Logicalis Network Solutions Limited, Logicalis Networks GmbH, Logicalis US Holdings, Inc., Logicalis, Inc., Promon Logicalis Latin America Limited, Mason Communications (Ireland) Limited, Mason Communications Limited, Mason Group Limited, On Line Distribution Limited, RangeGate (Proprietary) Limited, Satelcom Limited, Soft Net S.A. (Argentina),Softnet, Inc. S.A., Softnet Uruguay S.A, Softnet-Logical Comercial Importadora, Exportadora e de Servicos Ltda, Softnet-Logical Paraguay S.A, T.B.C Group Limited, TBC Limited, Westcon (UK) Limited, Westcon AME (Proprietary) Limited, Westcon Brazil Ltda, Westcon Canada Systems (WCSI), Inc., Westcon France SAS, Westcon GmbH, Westcon Group B.V., Westcon Group European Holdings Limited, Westcon Group European Operations Limited, Westcon Group North America Inc. and X-Net Cuyo S.A.

He served as a Director of Vida Research International Limited.

Mr. Montanana served as a Non-Executive Director of Brait SA.

He served as a Director of Versatile Systems Inc. (formerly Versatile Mobile Systems Canada Inc.) from January 1997 to November 8, 2008.

Mr. Montanana graduated with a Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.


  • Richard Last, Independent Non-Executive Director of Corero Network Security plc since May 22, 2008.

Lynx plc Age:54

Mr. Richard Last has been Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Lynx PLC since 1991. Mr. Last served as the Chief Executive Officer of IFA Holding Company Ltd. (Formerly Lynx Group PLC) from 1991 to February 4, 2002. He joined Lynx Group PLC in 1991. He serves as Director of Lynx Holdings Limited, Lynx Limited, Lynx IT Communications Limited, Lynx Computer Services Limited, Lynx Overseas Investments Limited, Lynx Technology Limited, Lynx Technology Holdings Limited, Lynx Financial Systems Pty Limited, Lynxserv Limited,

Mr. Last served as Finance Director of Quadrant Group PLC, which he joined in 1987. He has over 15 years of senior experience in information technology software and services sectors.

Mr. Last has been the Chairman and Non-Executive Director of Patsystems plc and Arcontech Group plc (both financial software businesses listed on AIM). He has been the Non-Executive Chairman of Patsystems plc since April 17, 2008.

He has been the Non-Executive Chairman of Lighthouse Group plc since August 30, 2012. Mr. Last has been Non Executive Director of Lighthouse Group plc since July 25, 2007.

He serves as the Chairman of British Smaller Technology Companies VCT 2 plc. since January 1, 2008.

He has been the Chairman of Arcontech Group Plc (Alternate name: Knowledge Technology Solutions plc.) since February 19, 2007.

Mr. Last serves as Non-Executive Chairman and Director of Xpertise Group PLC.

He served as the Chairman of Parseq plc until December 1, 2001.

Serves as Director of Sphinx Group Limited, Sphinx 110 Limited, Sphinx CST Limited, Sphinx CST Networks Limited, Sphinx Professional Services Limited, Sphinx CST (Ireland) Limited,

Serves as Director of Waste Management Systems Limited, Financial Payments Systems Limited, Xpertise Training Limited, APD Mobile Data Limited, FS (UK) Limited, Signal Limited, APD Communications Limited, APD-S.Com Limited, Orsted Limited, Switch Networks Limited, Transient 110 Limited, Transient 110 (No 2) Limited, Overseas 110 Limited and GapAid Limited.

He serves as Director of a number of Venture Capital Trusts.

He serves as a Independent Non Executive Chairman of CSE Global UK Limited.

He served as Director of Power Education Limited, Tamesis Ltd., Tietoenator Attentive Systems Limited, Tietoenator (UK No.1) Limited, Micgrogen Wealth Management Systems (Guernsey) Limited, Quantix Holdings Limited, Lynx Financial Systems Limited, Quantix Limited and Lihnet Limited.

He served as Executive Director of IFA Holding Company Ltd.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and is a FSA registered individual. Mr. Last holds a B.A. degree (Hons) from Sheffield University.


Executive Management w/ photos and Linked-In addresses

  • Marty Meyer, Chief Executive Officer

As CEO, Marty Meyer brings a proven record of success in high tech company management, reflecting a unique blend of expertise and experience in both technology and finance. Under Meyer's leadership, Corero has experienced solid growth, introduced significant new products and services, expanded its international presence, and added some of the best technology and business/sales people in the country to ensure excellence and success.

Most recently, he served as chief operating officer and chief financial officer at ExtendMedia, where he negotiated contracts with major North American telecommunications companies AT&T, Bell Canada and Verizon, and entertainment giants, such as Disney, Paramount and NBC. At ExtendMedia, Meyer was directly responsible for driving PCI and PA-DSS compliance for the company's software platform and data center SaaS application deployments. He has more than 25 years' experience in finance, engineering and operations with both fast-growing start-ups and established technology companies. Previous experience includes COO and CFO positions at Bowstreet, Ucentric Systems, Equipe Communications, Sightpath and Xedia.

Meyer's management philosophy reflects a strong commitment to offering innovative technology supported by uncompromising quality assurance; comprehensive services deployed in partnership with customers, and creating a work environment that empowers talented and dedicated employees to succeed. He holds a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University and an MBA from Babson College.


  • Ashley Stephenson, Executive Vice President

As Executive Vice President, Ashley Stephenson leads the company’s product and global expansion strategy. Stephenson is an experienced IT industry executive and Internet technology entrepreneur with operating experience in the United States, Europe and Asia. In recent years he has spent the majority of his time providing strategic advisory services on the evolution of the global IT market. Previously, Stephenson co-founded or led several technology companies as Chairman or CEO including Reva Systems, acquired by ODIN, and Xedia Corporation, acquired by Lucent. He was awarded "CEO of the Year" by the Massachusetts Telecommunications Council for his work at Xedia Corp. Stephenson began his career at IBM Research & Development in the United Kingdom. For several years he taught Entrepreneurship as an Adjunct Professor in the Babson College MBA program. Stephenson has served on the Board of Directors of many venture-backed startups and industry consortia. He is a graduate of Imperial College, London with a degree in Physics and an Associate of the Royal College of Science. He is the holder of several U.S. patents.


  • Aimee Rhodes, Chief Marketing Officer

As CMO, Aimee Rhodes leads the company's global marketing strategies, including branding and lead generation initiatives. With more than 20 years of expertise in global communications and network security, Rhodes has a track record for building high tech brands through differentiated product value propositions. Prior to joining Corero, Rhodes was VP of Marketing at Xceedium, a network access control vendor and, before that, AlgoSec, a provider of firewall management solutions. Previously, she also served as VP of Corporate Communications at Whale Communications, where her efforts driving marketing and corporate communications caught the attention of Microsoft, which acquired the company in 2006.

A former foreign correspondent with Reuters, radio reporter/editor (head of Israel Radio English News Service), and TV reporter, she holds an MA in Journalism and BA in Political Science from Michigan State University.


  • Paul Jones, Vice President of Engineering

As VP of Engineering, Paul Jones is responsible for Corero's engineering product development operations, assuring delivery and continued excellence and quality assurance of Corero's industry leading network security products. He has a strong track record and continuous commitment to working closely with customer support and professional services groups to assist customers with mission-critical deployments.

Jones has an outstanding record of more than 30 years' design and senior management experience in advanced hardware and software system development in the computer, networking and telecommunication industries. He previously managed engineering at Sonus Networks (VoIP), Indus River Networks (managed VPN), Stratus Computer (fault tolerant computing) and Stellar Computer (graphics supercomputing). Jones holds a BA degree in English Literature from Brown University and an MS degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts.


  • Steve Turner, Vice President of Technology Solutions and Services

AS VP of Technology Solutions and Services, Steve Turner is responsible for the delivery of comprehensive, dedicated services to ensure the full value of Corero's leading network security solutions is achieved in each customer's unique environment. Turner calls upon his expertise and 20 years' international experience in the IT networking and security market in the realization of Corero's core tenet of the overriding value of outstanding, continuing service engagement in trusted partnership with customers.

At Fortinte, prior to joining Corero, he was initially responsible for shaping the company's high-end appliance strategy. Subsequently, as VP Customer Services and Support worldwide, he coalesced geographically disparate customer services infrastructures into a strategic organization.

Turner holds several patents in wireless mesh networking technologies and was founder and CEO of FilFree Networks, a wireless start-up company. Prior to that, he ran a specialized consulting company providing network and security services to customers such as Boeing, SWIFT and Equant, for whom he architected and deployed a number of secure global service delivery networks. Turner started his career writing software for a real-time operating system and applications for the physical testing of entire assemblies for the aerospace industry. His technology background includes tenures with Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in France and Cisco Systems in Belgium, during which time he became one of the early CCIEs. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Portsmouth University, England.


  • Steve Leahy, Vice President North America

As VP North America, Steve Leahy is responsible for growing Corero's sales organization and sales strategy, both channel and direct. He brings extensive global sales management experience in the IT industry, having been instrumental in leading the worldwide sales and market positioning of several start-ups, where he built direct and indirect selling teams. A successful sales strategist who has demonstrated the ability to build and lead high-productivity teams, Leahy joins Corero from StillSecure, where he was VP of Worldwide sales. While at StillSecure, he successfully transformed sales to an almost entirely channel-centric model.

Leahy has held comparable positions at Accurev, Empirix, Fricitonless Commerce and Calico Commerce, as well as sales and sales management positions at Informix, PureAtria, Sun Microsystems and Digital Equipment Corp. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine.


  • Joao Melo, Vice President Operations

In his role as VP Operations, Joao Melo assures Corero outperforms its competition in terms of quality, service level agreement (manufacturing) and cost of goods. Melo has been providing substantial operational value to the company's business for over 10 years, continuously improving value to the customer through streamlining corporate processes and focusing on their needs. He has more than 20 years of creative problem-solving experience in many business areas, including supply chain management, manufacturing, regulatory compliance, quality assurance, sales management, product marketing, product development and engineering.

Prior to joining the company, Melo was a senior consulting engineer, delivering product design consulting services for Bleck Design Group. He also held a position as a mechanical engineer for Bose Corp. He holds a BSME from Boston University and MBA from Babson College with a focus on managing technology-intensive enterprises.


Investors Major Shareholders

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