14 DAY TRIAL // Today, on October 22, 2012, world-renowned security solutions provider Secunia – the developer of Secunia PSI – celebrates its 10-year anniversary.
The firm’s representatives are confident that in the next 10 years they’ll continue to provide innovative products, their mission being to get regular users and organizations to realize that software vulnerabilities represent an issue that should not be treated lightly.
“We’ve been fortunate to get off on the right foot, back in 2002. From day one, Secunia has been able to combine sales, strategy, innovation and development in a proactive push to market, driven by the market and its needs,” said Thomas Zeihlund, CEO at Secunia.
“The ‘founding father’ and the four co-founders had this rare combination of skills that enabled Secunia to make the right strategic and tactical decisions from the very start. Critically, Secunia’s founders understood the importance of sale from day one, pure and simple.”
Currently, the company has over 130 employees and more than 5.7 million customers rely on Secunia’s free vulnerability assessment tool. Furthermore, the firm’s research team is responsible for analyzing and providing intelligence for over 40,000 systems and applications.
Since many of the security holes leveraged these days by cybercriminals don’t necessarily exist in Microsoft products, but in the ones of third parties, Secunia wants to ensure that their customers are warned about the vulnerabilities that plague these applications as well.
In fact, only 22% of vulnerabilities affect Microsoft programs and operating systems, while the rest of 78% exist in third-party software.
Secunia has certainly come a long way since it first started. If, in the beginning, they offered only vulnerability advisories, they later came to realize that corporate customers needed much more than advisories on what they must do to patch up their security holes.
“At this point the customers said: ‘Great. So you tell me I have a problem. And you tell me what to do about it. Why don’t you just fix it for me?’ And that was when we developed the version of the Corporate Software Inspector (CSI) that integrates into patch deployment tools,” Zeihlund explained.