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Tripwire history
Tripwire company history timeline
In 1997, Gene Kim co-founded Tripwire, Inc. with rights to the Tripwire name and technology, and produced a commercial version, Tripwire for Servers.
In 2000, Tripwire released Open Source Tripwire.
In 2005, the firm released Tripwire Enterprise, a product for configuration control by detecting, assessing, reporting and remediating file and configuration changes.
August 21, 2009, the firm acquired Activeworx technologies from CrossTec Corporation.
Revenues grew to $74 million in 2009.
In January 2010, it announced the release of Tripwire Log Center, a log and security information and event management (SIEM) software that stores, correlates and reports log and security event data.
By May–June 2010, the company had over 5,500 customers and had announced that it had filed a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock.
CEO Jim Johnson cited the firm's failure to reach the $100 million revenue milestone in 2010 as well as changing IPO market expectations as reasons for not going through with the IPO. The day following the acquisition, the company laid off about 50 of its 350 employees.
Tripwire acquired nCircle, which focused on asset discovery and vulnerability management, in 2013.
In December 2014, Belden announced plans to buy Tripwire for $710 million.
The acquisition was completed on January 2, 2015.
In February 2022, Belden announced to sell Tripwire to HelpSystems.
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