11 Facts About Forcepoint

Forcepoint was founded in 1994 as an information technology reseller called NetPartners.

Forcepoint began as a reseller for network security products, then developed software for controlling Internet use by employees.

At the time, Forcepoint had 2,000 employees, with one-third of its customers being departments in the federal government of the United States.

Forcepoint was the smallest of five major businesses owned by Raytheon, but had the highest profit margin.

The following year, Forcepoint began shuffling executives in a re-organization effort that included some layoffs.

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In February 2017, Forcepoint acquired a cloud-based access broker security product from Imperva called Skyfence.

At the time, Forcepoint's software was only used to prevent employees from viewing certain types of content at work, but in 2006 features were added to detect when employees were attempting to visit websites suspected of hosting malicious code.

In February 2012, Forcepoint released a cloud-based suite of IT security products for smartphones, tablets, laptops, USB drives, and other mobile devices.

Forcepoint responded by cutting off the country's access to the firm's database updates.

In 2011, Forcepoint said it would join the Global Network Initiative, which is focused on privacy and Internet freedom.

Forcepoint said "a malicious attacker could get your whole site blocked at any time by the simple procedure of leaving dangerous, malicious or pornographic links in a blog's comments".