Invincea

InvinceaCompany type| Subsidiary

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Founded| 2006; 19 years ago (2006)
Founder| Anup K. Ghosh
Defunct| April 16, 2018; 7 years ago (2018-04-16)
Headquarters|

Fairfax

United States

Key people

* Anup K. Ghosh (Founder & CEO)
* Dana Mariano (Chief Financial Officer)
* Norm Laudermilch (Chief Operations Officer)
* Alan Keister (VP Engineering)

Services|

* Computer security

Parent| Sophos
Subsidiaries| Invincea Labs
Website| Archived February 25, 2018, at the Wayback Machine

Invincea, Inc. was a company that offered a suite of endpoint protection software 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. It was acquired by Sophos in February 2017.[1][2][3]

## History

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The company was founded in 2006 by Dr. Anup Ghosh and was based in Fairfax, Virginia.[4] Major investors included Dell Ventures, New Atlantic Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Aeris Capital, and Harbert Venture Partners.[5]

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 smartphones. The Invincea software secured data from unauthorized access and protect devices from malicious applications.[6]

In June 2013, Dell announced an OEM partnership with Invincea and began shipping new endpoint security software 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 resided.[7][8]

In December 2013, Invincea acquired Sandboxie for an undisclosed amount. Sandboxie was 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.[9]

In May 2016, Invincea launched X by Invincea.[10] X by Invincea was a suite of products that protected endpoints by detecting and blocking known and unknown malware without signatures in real-time. X combined deep learning, an advanced form of machine learning, behavioral analysis and the legacy Invincea container technology, also known as isolation technology, in one lightweight agent.[8]

In February 2017, Invincea was acquired by Sophos,[1][2][3] a security software and hardware company.[4] In August that year, the subsidiary Invincea Labs was renamed Two Six Labs.[11]

In January 2018, Sophos announced that Invincea's deep learning technology would be integrated with the Sophos Intercept X endpoint security product.[12] On April 16, 2018, Invincea announced the end of selling the X by Invincea suite of products. The Sophos products did not integrate with the Invincea container technology. Support and maintenance remained available under existing contracts through December 31, 2019, at which point, support and maintenance for Invincea products ceased.[13][14] Sophos did not include the Invincea container technology in Intercept X. For that reason, Sandboxie was released as a free tool, and Sophos released its container technology to be open source.[15]

## References

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1. ^ a b "Sophos Adds Advanced Machine Learning to Its Next-Generation Endpoint Protection Portfolio with Acquisition of Invincea". Sophos. 2017-02-08. Archived from the original on 2017-05-09. Retrieved 2017-02-11.
2. ^ a b "Sophos grows anti-malware ensemble with Invincea". Sophos. 2017-02-08. Archived from the original on 2017-02-10. 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."
3. ^ a b "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.
4. ^ a b Gregg, Aaron (2017-02-08). "Fairfax City cyber start-up Invincea sells to a British firm for up to $120 million". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2017-03-12. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
5. ^ "Dell Invests in 'Zero-day' Security Startup Invincea - The CIO Report - WSJ". WSJ. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
6. ^ Acohido, Byron (4 July 2012). "Military enlists Invincea to beef up Android security". usatoday.com. USA Today. Archived from the original on 2014-10-14. Retrieved 8 October 2014.
7. ^ Robert Westervelt. "Invincea Lands Container Deal On Dell Commercial Laptops". CRN. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
8. ^ a b Preimesberger, Chris (16 May 2016). "Invincea Debuts New Invisible Endpoint Security Agent". eWeek. Archived from the original on 16 March 2024. Retrieved 28 January 2017.
9. ^ "Sandboxie acquired by invincea: what it means". gHacks Technology News. 26 December 2013. Archived from the original on 6 October 2014. Retrieved 27 October 2014.
10. ^ "Invincea Launches X-as-a-Service Managed Security". eWEEK. 20 January 2017. Archived from the original on 2024-03-16. Retrieved 2020-05-05.
11. ^ "Invincea Labs announces corporate name change to Two Six Labs". GlobeNewswire News Room (Press release). 14 August 2017. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019.
12. ^ Wright, Tom (31 January 2018). "Sophos integrates $100m acquisition into new next-gen offering". CRN. Archived from the original on 31 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2019.
13. ^ "Invincea End of Service". 26 September 2018. Archived from the original on 27 September 2018. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
14. ^ "Invincea: A Sophos Company". www.sophos.com. Archived from the original on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 4 April 2019. "On April 16th 2018 Sophos announced the immediate end of sale for all Invincea-related products. Support and maintenance would be available under existing contracts through December 31st, 2019, at which point support and maintenance for Invincea products would cease."
15. ^ "The Sandboxie Windows sandbox isolation tool is now a open-source!". BleepingComputer. Archived from the original on 2020-04-11. Retrieved 2020-06-15.