NetScreen Technologies: Difference between revisions

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|location_city = Sunnyvale, CA.

|location_country = [[USA]]United States

|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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Ken Xie left NetScreen in 2000 to found [[Fortinet]], a competing ASIC-based firewall company.<ref>[[Fortinet]]</ref>

NetScreen acquired its core IPS technology through the purchase of OneSecure, Inc. for US$45 million in stock in 2002. OneSecure was created by Rakesh Loonkar (subsequently the co-founder of [[Trusteer]]), and [[Israel]]iIsraeli engineer Nir Zuk, who had been one of [[Check Point|Check Point Software]]’s first employees and later went on to found [[Palo Alto Networks]].

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>