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RSA Security LLC

Trade name	RSA
Company type	Division of EMC Corporation
Traded as	Nasdaq: RSAS
Industry	Encryption and Network Security
Founded	1982
Founder	Ron Rivest Adi Shamir Leonard Adleman
Fate	Acquired by EMC Corporation
Headquarters	Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
Key people	Thomas P. Heiser (President) Arthur W. Coviello, Jr. (Executive Chairman)
Products	Encryption and network security software
Revenue	Not separately disclosed by EMC
Number of employees	1,319 (as of 2007)
Parent	EMC Corporation
Website	www.rsa.com

RSA Security LLC, formerly RSA Security, Inc. and doing business as RSA, is an American computer and network security company. RSA was named after the initials of its co-founders, Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Len Adleman, after whom the RSA public key cryptography algorithm was also named. Among its products include the RSA BSAFE cryptography libraries and the SecurID authentication token. It also organizes the annual RSA Conference, an information security conference.

Founded as an independent company in 1982, RSA Security, Inc. was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2006 for US$2.1 billion and operates as a division within EMC.

RSA is based in Bedford, Massachusetts, maintaining offices in Australia, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, Singapore, India, China, Hong Kong and Japan.

History

Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who developed the RSA encryption algorithm in 1977, founded RSA Data Security in 1982.

In 1995, RSA sent a handful of people across the hall to found Digital Certificates International, better known as VeriSign.
The company then called Security Dynamics acquired RSA Data Security in July 1996 and DynaSoft AB in 1997.
In January 1997, it proposed the first of the DES Challenges which led to the first public breaking of a message based on the Data Encryption Standard.
In February 2001, it acquired Xcert International, Inc., a privately held company that developed and delivered digital certificate-based products for securing e-business transactions.
In May 2001, it acquired 3-G International, Inc., a privately held company that developed and delivered smart card and biometric authentication products.
In August 2001, it acquired Securant Technologies, Inc., a privately held company that produced ClearTrust, an identity management product.
In December 2005, it acquired Cyota, a privately held Israeli company specializing in online security and anti-fraud solutions for financial institutions.
In April 2006, it acquired PassMark Security.
On September 14, 2006, RSA stockholders approved the acquisition of the company by EMC Corporation for $2.1 billion.
On 2007 RSA acquired Valyd Software, a Hyderabad-based Indian company specializing in file and data security .
In 2009 RSA launched the RSA Share Project. As part of this project, some of the RSA BSAFE libraries were made available for free. To promote the launch, RSA ran a programming competition with a US$10,000 first prize.
In 2011, RSA introduced a new CyberCrime Intelligence Service designed to help organizations identify computers, information assets and identities compromised by trojans and other online attacks.

SecurID security breach

Main article: SecurID § March_2011_system_compromise

On March 17, 2011, about a month after announcing its CyberCrime Intelligence Service, RSA disclosed an attack on its two-factor authentication products. The attack was similar to the Sykipot attacks, the July 2011 SK Communications hack, and the NightDragon series of attacks. RSA called it an Advanced Persistent Threat.

Products

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RSA enVision is a security information and event management (SIEM) platform, with centralised log-management service that claims to "enable organisations to simplify compliance process as well as optimise security-incident management as they occur."

References

^ "Distributed Team Cracks Hidden Message in RSA's 56-Bit RC5 Secret-Key Challenge". October 22, 1997. Retrieved February 22, 2009.
^ Kaliski, Burt (October 22, 1997). "Growing Up with Alice and Bob: Three Decades with the RSA Cryptosystem". Retrieved February 22, 2009.
"RSA Security LLC Company Profile". Retrieved May 15, 2013.
"RSA History". Retrieved June 8, 2011.
^ "EMC Announces Definitive Agreement to Acquire RSA Security, Further Advancing Information-Centric Security". Rsasecurity.com. June 29, 2006. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
"EMC Newsroom: EMC News and Press Releases". Emc.com. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
"EMC Completes RSA Security Acquisition, Announces Acquisition of Network Intelligence". Rsasecurity.com. September 18, 2006. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
"RSA Share Project". Retrieved January 4, 2013.
"Announcing the RSA Share Project Programming Contest". March 24, 2009. Retrieved January 4, 2013.
"RSA CyberCrime Intelligence Service". rsa.com. Retrieved December 19, 2013.
"Command and Control in the Fifth Domain" (PDF). Command Five Pty Ltd. February 2012. Retrieved February 10, 2012.
"RSA hit by advanced persistent threat attacks". Computer Weekly. March 18, 2011. Retrieved May 4, 2011.
"RSA Envision". EMC. Retrieved December 19, 2012.

External links

Oral history interview with James Bidzos, Charles Babbage Institute University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Bidzos discusses his leadership of software security firm RSA Data Security as it sought to commercialize encryption technology as well as his role in creating the RSA Conference and founding Verisign. Oral history interview 2004, Mill Valley, California.
Oral history interview with Martin Hellman Oral history interview 2004, Palo Alto, California. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. Hellman describes his invention of public key cryptography with collaborators Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle at Stanford University in the mid-1970s. He also describes the commercialization of cryptography with RSA Data Security and VeriSign.