Intergated Security or Unified Security market is high growth area of Info Security. Crossbeam has a wide range of both chassis and stackable platforms that integrate today's critical security applications making security more effective against today's sophisticated and blended attacks and simpler to manage as compared to point products.
The Beginning
Founded in March 2000 Crossbeam began selling its first product in late 2001. Crossbeam Systems is a privately held company.
The Success Team
Peter G. George, President and CEO
Rick Moberg, Chief Financial Officer
Harsh Kapoor, Chief Technology Officer
Christofer Hoff, Chief Security Strategist
Tom Nolette, Vice President of Operations and Quality
Michel P. Martin, Vice President of Worldwide Sales
Marilyn Kain, Vice President Business Development and Strategic Alliances
Throop Wilder, Co-Founder and Vice President of Marketing
Frank Fiorillo, Vice President of Worldwide Customer Support
Douglas Theriault, Vice President of Engineering
"Integrated security platforms are much in demand with customers as they reduce TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) and also make manageability easier. Crossbeam's patent pending architecture is the driving force behind their impressive range of platforms."
Rick Justice, Chief Editor
What makes Crossbeam Systems an Info Security "Hot Company" 2006
Products & Technologies
X-Series (X80, X45, X40) -- chassis-based security services switches featuring a patent-pending architecture that integrates best of breed security applications (firewall/VPN, intrusion prevention and protection, content security, web filtering, etc) from leading security companies, such as Check Point, ISS, Aladdin, Trend Micro, Secure Computing and Sourcefire, on high performance, single-box high availability platforms to protect the networks of service providers and large enterprises.
C-Series (C2, C6, C10, C30, C30i) -- Crossbeam's C-Series (C30, C30i, C10) products are stackable security services switches featuring a patent-pending architecture that integrates best of breed security applications (firewall/VPN, intrusion prevention and protection, content security, web filtering, etc) from leading security companies, such as Check Point, ISS, Aladdin, Trend Micro, Secure Computing and Sourcefire, on high performance, dual-box high availability platforms to protect the networks of small to medium enterprises and branch offices of large enterprises.
Winning Architecture - Crossbeam’s X-Stream flow sequencing enables its products to serialize and parallelize the processing of traffic through multiple security applications to preserve corporate security policies in a consolidated security infrastructure. The company's patent-pending architecture integrates best-of-breed security engines such as firewall, virtual private networks, intrusion detection/prevention and content security in high performance, self healing security services switches. The end result -- companies can now consolidate their security infrastructures while preserving their security policies.
Product Performance - Highest performance firewall, IPS and anti-virus.
Industry First - to do security application processing/load balancing within a single chassis.
People & Investors
Crossbeam was founded in March 2000 by veterans of the networking and telecommunications industries. The fundamental premise of the company was that corporate productivity gains made possible by innovation and equipment consolidation at the network and transport layers of the IT infrastructure were now realizable at the network security layer, too. This required a new class of equipment to maximize the benefit. In the four years since the founding of the company, industry analysts (IDC, Gartner, GIGA, META, JP Morgan) have repeatedly validated Crossbeam's pioneering vision as the correct model for security infrastructure deployments.
Performance & Growth
Consistent revenue growth -- $6 M (2002), $12 M (2003), $25 M (2004), $40-50 M (2005 E)
Crossbeam ranked #1 in high-end Unified Threat Management devices in 2004 by IDC with 62.6% market share.
Strong Customer Base - 500+ customers worldwide, including both large enterprises (The Weather Channel, United Airlines, Fujitsu, Qualcomm, Sabre Travel, etc) and service providers (BellSouth, Telefonica, Czech Telecom, Globe Telecom, etc).
Potential & Strategies
Strategic Alliances - Crossbeam maintains strategic alliances with leading security software vendors, including Check Point Technologies, Inc., Internet Security Systems, Aladdin and Trend Micro. Each of these companies is either number one or number two in its field and all of them rely on Crossbeam for penetration at the high end.
Cost Effective - On average, Crossbeam’s customers replace around 20-30 boxes with one of the company’s security services switches, including both security appliances (firewalls, IDS, etc) as well as networking equipment (load balancers, switches, etc).
From a global markets perspective, Crossbeam has a significant presence in both Europe and the Pacific Rim, as well as the Americas. In Europe, Crossbeam has sales offices in the UK, Germany, Spain, Switzerland, Austria, and France. In Asia, Crossbeam maintains offices in Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, China and Australia. The company is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts.
Crossbeam Systems
200 Baker Avenue
Concord , MA 01742
Tel: (978) 318-7500
Fax: (978) 287-4210
www.crossbeamsystems.com
