NetScreen Technologies: Difference between revisions

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|company_namename = NetScreen Technologies

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|company_typetype = Private

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|foundation =

|location_city = Sunnyvale, CA.

|location_country = [[USA]]

|key_people = [[Ken Xie]], CTO, CEO, and Co-Founder, </br>Yan Ke, Co-Founder, Feng Deng, Co-Founder, Robert Thomas, CEO, Anson Chen, VP R&D, Nir Zuk, CTO

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|industry = [[IT security]], </br>[[Computer software]], </br>[[Computer hardware]]

|products = [[Network security]] and access solutions and appliances.

|revenue =

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NetScreen Technologies was founded by Yan Ke, [[Ken Xie]], and Feng Deng.<ref>http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-87845891.html</ref> Ken Xie, Chief Technology Officer and co-founder was also the CEO until Robert Thomas joined in 1998.<ref>http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-50106034.html</ref>

Robert Thomas, NetScreen's president and chief executive officer, came to NetScreen in 1998 from Sun Microsystems, where he was General Manager of Intercontinental Operations for Sun's software business, which includes security, networking, and Internet tools. <ref>http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-53230275.html</ref>

Ken Xie left NetScreen in 2000 to found [[Fortinet]], a competing ASIC-based firewall company.<ref>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortinet</ref>

In 2003 NetScreen hired Anson Chen as its vice president of research and development. Anson Chen, a 12 year veteran of Cisco Systems, Inc. and its former vice president and general manager of the Network Management and Services Technology Group, lead engineering, research and development efforts for NetScreen's entire product line, including its firewall, IPSec virtual private network (VPN) and intrusion detection and prevention technologies. Chen also had functional management responsibility for NetScreen's secure access products. <ref>http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-131629611.html</ref>

NetScreen acquired its core IPS technology through the purchase of OneSecure, Inc. for [[US$]] 40 million in stock in 2002. OneSecure was created by [[Israel]]i engineer Nir Zuk, who previously was one of [[Check Point|Check Point Software]]’s first employees and later went on to found Palo Alto Networks.

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