Update: Acquired by Cisco in November 2007.

About: Securent is the leader in Entitlement Management. It has delivered the industry’s first XACML-standards based Entitlement Management solution that has been proven in mission-critical enterprise environments.

Securent’s Entitlement Management Solution (EMS) leverages a number of patent-pending technological advances to allow enterprises to enforce entitlement policies at very high performance across a heterogeneous IT stack and to manage, review, and audit the policies on-demand at a centralized console.

The significant cost, time to market, and compliance benefits of EMS have been proven at many Fortune 500 customers. Securant has been recognized by the industry’s leading analysts including Burton, Forrester, and Gartner.

Securent is backed by funding from Greylock Partners and Onset Ventures. For more information, please visit www.securent.net.

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Update: Acquired by Google May 2007.

About: Headquartered in Mountain View, California, GreenBorder provides Web security software for consumers, small and medium-size businesses, and enterprises. The company’s products seamlessly protect users against Web-based threats — even the latest rootkits and other undetectable exploits — and identity thieves. Users can browse websites, use webmail, open downloaded files, or enter sensitive personal information online in complete safety and privacy.

GreenBorder’s unique technology ensures that users’ PCs, files, and identity data are automatically protected at all times — whether at mobile hotspots, on the road, at home or in the office — without ever requiring updates or signatures. GreenBorder is a private company backed by leading venture firms Sevin Rosen Funds, TPG Ventures, and Labrador Ventures.

For more information, visit www.GreenBorder.com

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Update: Acquired by Oracle July 2007.

About:Bharosa is a global provider of proactive, real-time fraud detection and multifactor online authentication solutions for the enterprise. Bharosa’s Tracker product works behind the scenes to verify a host of factors used to confirm a user’s identity, including the user’s computer, location and online behavior. Tracker scores risk through a unique and proprietary “gated” security method and responds to risk in real time by increasing online security. Tracker offers strong asset and transaction authentication security that can be implemented without requiring any change to the online experience.

Another Bharosa enterprise product, Authenticator, protects sensitive credentials data from Phishing, Trojans and Proxy-Based Fraud. Tracker and Authenticator together form the organization’s most powerful weapon in the fight against online identity theft.

Bharosa, Inc. is a privately held company founded in May 2003 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California. More information is available at www.bharosa.com

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