CipherTrust
AcquiredAlpharetta, United States · Founded 2000 · $42.0M raised
- Headquarters
- Alpharetta, Georgia
- Employees
- 201–500
- Founded
- 2000
- Business Model
- B2B
- Total Funding
- $42.0M
- Rounds
- 1
- Acquisition Date
- Aug 2006
Totals include recorded grants and other qualifying funding, not just equity. What counts toward funding.
About
CipherTrust was an enterprise email and messaging security company based in Alpharetta, Georgia, best known for its IronMail gateway appliance that prevented email-based data leaks and blocked spam, and its IronIM product for securing instant messaging. The company invented the TrustedSource reputation system, which provided reputation scores for IP addresses, URLs, domains, and email content, and became foundational to enterprise anti-spam infrastructure. CipherTrust was acquired by Secure Computing Corporation in August 2006 for approximately $273.6 million; Secure Computing was subsequently acquired by McAfee in 2008, folding CipherTrust's technologies into McAfee's security portfolio.
Summary
CipherTrust is a Cybersecurity company based in Alpharetta, United States, founded in 2000. It has raised $42.0M in total across 1 round. Investors include Secure Computing Corporation, Battery Ventures and US Venture Partners.
Funding & Exit History
Aug 2006
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