Trusteer
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| Subsidiary | |
| Industry | Internet security |
| Founded | 2006 |
| Founder | Mickey Boodaei, Amit Klein, Shmulik Regev, Rakesh Loonkar, Eldan Ben-Haim |
| Headquarters | Boston, Massachusetts, United States |
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Key people
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Mickey Boodaei (CEO) Rakesh K. Loonkar (President) |
| Products | Trusteer Rapport, Trusteer Pinpoint Malware Detection, Trusteer Pinpoint Account Takeover Detection, Trusteer Mobile Risk Engine, Trusteer Apex. |
| Revenue | $140 million (2014) |
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Number of employees
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420 (1H 2015) |
| Parent | IBM |
| Website | http://www.trusteer.com/ |
Trusteer is a Boston-based computer security division of IBM, responsible for a suite of security software. Founded in Israel in 2006, Trusteer was acquired in September 2013 by IBM for $1 billion.
Trusteer’s portfolio of products aims to block online threats from malware and phishing attacks, and to support regulatory compliance requirements. Trusteer’s malware research team aims to analyze information received from the installed base of 30,000,000 user endpoints and hundreds of organizations.
Trusteer has a presence in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Japan and China.
Trusteer's products aim to prevent incidents at the point of attack while investigating their source to mitigate future attacks. In addition, Trusteer allows organizations to receive immediate alerts, and to report whenever a new threat is launched against them or their customers.
Trusteer Rapport is security software advertised as an additional layer of security to anti-virus software. It is designed to protect confidential data, such as account credentials, from being stolen by malicious software (malware) and via phishing. To achieve this goal, the software includes anti-phishing measures to protect against misdirection and attempts to prevent malicious screen scraping; it attempts to protect users against the following forms of attacks: man-in-the-browser, man-in-the-middle, session hijacking and screen capturing.
On installation, Rapport also tries to remove existing financial malware from end-user machines and to prevent future infection. Trusteer Rapport is advertised to be compatible with Microsoft Windows (XP-SP3 and higher) and Mac OS X and can be downloaded free of charge. Financial institutions offer the software free of charge with a view to making online banking safer for customers.
Various financial institutions are currently distributing the software to their customers via internet banking services. Banks promoting the software include Bank of America,Société Générale,Tangerine,INGDirect,HSBC,NatWest,The Royal Bank of Scotland,CIBC,Ulster Bank, First Direct, Santander, Standard Bank of South Africa, Scotiabank, BMO,Banco de Chile, The Co-operative Bank, Guaranty Trust Bank (GTBank),EcobankDavivienda and First Republic Bank.
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