Awareness Technologies is a Westport, Connecticut-based American technology company founded in 2002. The company provides security, monitoring, forensic, data loss prevention, productivity and analytics solutions for home, office, and enterprise.[2][3]
History
The company was founded in 2002 in Los Angeles, California by Mike Osborn and Ron Penna.[4] Originally, the company developed technology that monitored electronic transmissions for uses of counter-terrorism.[5]
In 2010, a group headed by Brad Miller (former CEO of Perimeter eSecurity[6]) and First New England Capital invested $6.5 million.[7] In 2012, the company headquarters was relocated from Marina del Rey, California to Westport, Connecticut.
In 2016, the company acquired a mobile parental control and screen time management firm Screen Time Labs, based in Bristol, United Kingdom.[10]
On June 12, 2019, Awareness Technologies acquired Veriato, formerly SpectorSoft, a technology company which established the insider risk industry in the late 1990s.[11]
On December 20, 2020, TZP Group acquired Awareness Technologies. In conjunction with the acquisition, ATI announced the appointment of Elizabeth Harz as the company's new CEO.[2]
Brands
Veriato – employee monitoring and insider risk detection for enterprise organizations.
WebWatcher received the PC Magazine editors' choice award in a 2011 review of Parental Control & Monitoring software.[13] Also, About.com readers named WebWatcher as the "Best Internet Safety Tool" as part of its 2011 Readers' Choice Awards.[14]
ScreenTime Parental Control received the 2019 National Parenting Product Award.[15]
Veriato won seven 2019 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards, including Best Cybersecurity Company and Best Insider Threat Solution for its Cerebral Insider Threat Intelligence Platform.[16]
In 2022, Veriato Cerebral received the PCMag Editor’s Choice Award as the best employee monitoring software for complex threat detection.[17]
Users
Awareness Technologies products under the InterGuard software suite are used by technology companies, financial services, health care organizations and other industries.[18][19] InterGuard gives administrators the ability to monitor activities of remote employees who work off of the corporate domain.[18]