Invincea, Inc. was a company that offered a suite of endpoint protection products. Originally called Secure Command, LLC, Invincea Inc. was a venture backed software company that provided malware threat detection, prevention, and analysis to stop advanced threats. It was acquired by Sophos in February 2017.
History
Founded in 2006, by Dr. Anup Ghosh, the company is headquartered Fairfax, Virginia. Major investors include Dell Ventures, New Atlantic Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Aeris Capital & Harbert Venture Partners. In 2012, Invincea used a $21 million grant from DARPA to improve the security of the US military's Android-based devices such as tablet PCs and smart phones. The Invincea software secures data from unauthorized access and protects the device from malicious applications. In June 2013, Dell announced an OEM partnership with Invincea and began shipping a new endpoint securitysolution dubbed “Dell Data Protection | Protected Workspace” on all of its commercial tablets and PCs worldwide. Dell Data Protection included Invincea container technology to put a shield - or virtualized container - around each browser or application instance to protect it from the rest of the device and the network on which it resides. In December 2013, Invincea acquired Sandboxie for an undisclosed amount. Sandboxie is a pioneer in the Windows Containment and sandboxing market, also called “container” technology, and the acquisition was made to consolidate Sandboxie and Invincea’s own container solution. In May 2016, Invincea launched X by Invincea. X by Invincea is a suite of products that protects endpoints by detecting and blocking known and unknown malware—without signatures in real-time. X combines deep learning, which is an advanced form of machine learning, behavioral analysis and the legacy Invincea container technology, also known as isolation technology, in one lightweight agent. In February 2017, Invincea Inc. was acquired by Sophos, a security software and hardware company. In August of that year, subsidiary Invincea Labs was renamed Two Six Labs. In January 2018, Sophos announced that Invincea deep learning technology would be integrated with the Sophos Intercept X endpoint security product and, on April 16, 2018, Invincea announced the end of sale of the X by Invincea suite of products. The Sophos products did not integrate the Invincea container technology. Support and maintenance will be available under existing contracts through December 31st, 2019, at which point support and maintenance for Invincea products will cease. Sophos did not include the Invincea container technology in Intercept X. For that reason, Sandboxie was released as a free tool and Sophos has transitioned the Sandboxie container technology to open source.
