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Industry | Security Software & Services |
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Fate | Acquired by SafeNet |
Founded | 1985 |
Founder | Jacob (Yanki) Margalit and Tzvi Popowski |
Headquarters | Belcamp, MD , |
Products | eToken, eSafe, Hardlock, HASP |
Revenue | US$ 105.9 million (2007) |
$ 13.911 million (2007) | |
$ 14.888 million (2007) | |
Number of employees | 464[1] |
Website | www.safenet-inc.com |
Aladdin Knowledge Systems (formerly NASDAQ: ALDN and TASE: ALDN) was a company that produced software for digital rights management and Internet security. The company was acquired by Safenet Inc, in 2009. Its corporate headquarters are located in Belcamp. MD.
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- 1History
- 2Products
- 2.2Internet security
History[edit]
Aladdin Knowledge Systems was founded in 1985 by Jacob (Yanki) Margalit, when he was 23 years old; he was soon joined by brother Dany Margalit, who took the responsibility for product development at the age of 18, while at the same time completing a Mathematics and Computer Science degree in Tel Aviv University. In its early years the company developed two product lines, an artificial intelligence package (which was dropped early on) and a hardware product to prevent unauthorized software copying, similar to digital rights management. Yanki raised just $10,000 as an initial capital for the company.[2]
The digital rights management product became a success and by 1993 generated sales of $4,000,000. The same year that company had an initial public offering on NASDAQ raising $7,900,000.[3] In 2004 the company's shares were also listed on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.[4] By 2007 the company's annual revenues reached over $105 million.
In mid-2008, Vector Capital was attempting to purchase Aladdin. Vector initially offered $14.50 per share, but Aladdin's founder Margalit refused the offer arguing that the company was worth more. Aladdin's shareholders agreed on the merger in February 2009 at $11.50 per share, in cash. In March 2009, Vector Capital acquired Aladdin and officially merged it with SafeNet.[5]
Corporate timeline[1][edit]
- 1985 – Aladdin Knowledge Systems was established
- 1993 – Aladdin held an Initial Public Offering
- 1996 – Aladdin acquired the German company FAST
- 1998 – Aladdin patented USBsmart card based authentication tokens
- 1998_Dec – Aladdin acquired the software protection business of EliaShim
- 1999 – Aladdin acquired the eSafe 'content security' business of EliaShim
- 2000 – Aladdin acquired 10% of Comsec
- 2001 – Aladdin acquired the ESD assets of Preview Systems
- 2005 – Aladdin completed second offering – 2,000,000 shares with net proceeds of $39m
- 2009 – Aladdin was acquired by Vector Capital.
- 2010 – Aladdin was merged with Vector Capital's SafeNet.
Products[edit]
DRM[edit]
Aladdin's HASP product line is a digital rights management (DRM) suite of protection and licensing software with 40% global market share, used by over 30,000 software publishers. It is used across many platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac).[6]
HASP, which stands for Hardware Against Software Piracy, was the company's first product and evolved into a complete digital rights management suite, that includes a software only option and a back office management application, in recent years also software as a service capability.
Internet security[edit]
In the late 1990s the company started diversifying and began offering Internet security and network security products, offering two product lines:
Digital identity management[edit]
Six models of eTokens
eToken, portable device for two-factor authentication, pasdigital identity management, mainly deployed as a USB token.
Network security[edit]
eSafe a line of integrated network security and content filtering products, protecting networks against cracked and pirated Internet-borne software.
Vbox[edit]
Used by Adobe and Macromedia in their 30-days product trials.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ abCompany Profile for Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd (ALDN), retrieved 2008-10-20
- ^Shohet, Dan, 'Aladdin's Yanki Margalit: It's not personal', Globes 15 – 09 -2008, archived from the original on 2011-07-13, retrieved 2009-11-16
- ^'Aladdin completes flotation. (Aladdin Knowledge Systems finishes initial public offering on NASDAQ)', Israel Business Today Article date: October 29, 1993, archived from the original on 2012-11-05
- ^'Aladdin Knowledge Systems to Dual-List on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.', PR Newswire Article date: July 22, 2004[dead link]
- ^Shuster, Shmuel (March 2009), Vector completes Aladdin takeover.
- ^Miller, Zack (March 12, 2008), 'March Stock of the Month: Aladdin Knowledge Systems (ALDN)', Israel Opportunity Investor
External links[edit]
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