What you should know about SafeNet

In 1983, in a Timonium, Maryland basement, two NSA engineers founded Industrial Resource Engineering (IRE). IRE made a name for itself, selling enterprise network security solutions, using encryption technology to protect the public and private networks of financial institutions before expanding into the federal government sector.

By leveraging key investor funding and customer wins, IRE became a fast-rising star in the information security industry. Then, in 2000, IRE was officially renamed SafeNet. after its award-winning VPN product line.

From there, SafeNet embarked on a series of strategic company acquisitions— Securealink, Cylink Corporation, Raqia Networks, Inc., SSH , and then merger with Rainbow Technologies in 2004, becoming the world's seventh largest information security company and tripling its revenue base. During the next few years, SafeNet acquired DMDsecure, Datakey, Mediasentry and Eracom Technologies.

SafeNet has grown to more than 1,100 employees globally, approximately $300 million in annual revenue and a market capitalization of more than $0.5 billion. Extending across 100 countries, more than 10,000 customers including ARM, Bank of America, the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, Adobe, Samsung , Texas Instruments, Siemens, Warner Brothers, the U.S. Internal Revenue Service et al depend on SafeNet's technologies.

Today, SafeNet offers the broadest range of products and solutions of any security company in the world, protecting critical business data, communications and digital identities through a full spectrum of encryption technologies, hardware, software, and chips.