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MICRO FOCUS ARCSIGHT SOFTWARE
On February 14, 2019, Micro Focus announced it had acquired Interset, a security analytics software company that provides cyber-threat protection, and announced plans to use Interset's technology to add additional value to Micro Focus ArcSight. Micro Focus CEO Kevin Loosemore called the transaction "entirely consistent with our established acquisition strategy and our focus on efficient management of mature infrastructure products" and indicated that Micro Focus intended to "bring the core earnings margin for the mature assets in the deal - about 80 percent of the total - from 21 percent today to Micro Focus's existing 46 percent level within three years." The merge concluded on September 1, 2017.Īs of January 2019, the ArcSight portfolio has released ArcSight ESM version 7.0, ArcSight Express version 5.0, Arcsight Investigate version 2.20, and ArcSight Data Platform version 2.31 (including ArcSight's Logger, ArcMC and Event Broker technology). On September 7, 2016, HPE CEO Meg Whitman announced that the software assets of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, including Arcsight and the rest of the HP Enterprise Security Products group, would be spun out and then merged with Micro Focus to create an independent company of which HP Enterprise shareholders would retain majority ownership. ĪrcSight said it had more than a thousand customers at that time. On October 22, 2010, it completed its acquisition. ArcSight launched version 5.0 of its Logger and ESM technology, as well as IdentityView 2.0. In September 2010, Hewlett-Packard (HP) announced an agreement to acquire ArcSight for approximately $1.5 billion. Robert Shaw retired effective October 1, 2008, citing health reasons. It was the only Silicon Valley company to enter Nasdaq in 2008, during the Great Recession when few other technology companies went public. ArcSight filed for initial public offering on Septemand offered its shares on Februunder symbol ARST. In July 2001, Alex Daly was succeeded by Robert Shaw as CEO. The company was formally named ArcSight in January 2001. The original business plan was to build a caching and acceleration platform, though, through customer interviews and after getting feedback from prospective customers, Pat Figley identified the problem in the industry of "too much data" and the founders shifted their strategy to provide security events analysis and correlation. ArcSight originally was called Wahoo Technologies. Pat Figley was the first Director of Sales. Pravin Kothari was the founding Vice President of Engineering.

Alex Daly was the founding CEO and Hugh Njemanze was the founding CTO. It was merged with Micro Focus on September 1, 2017.ĪrcSight was incorporated in May 2000, and was initially headquartered in Cupertino, California.

ArcSight became a subsidiary of Hewlett-Packard in 2010. ArcSight is designed to help customers identify and prioritize security threats, organize and track incident response activities, and simplify audit and compliance activities.
