an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . november 2011 learn how and when to remove this template message beyondtrust type private industry enterprise security identity management and access control vulnerability management compliance reporting founded 1985 headquarters phoenix arizona usa key people kevin hickey president and ceo bryce hancock chief financial officer marc maiffret chief technology officer products privileged and identity management vulnerability management owner privately held number of employees 201 500 website http beyondtrust.com beyondtrust formerly symark is an american company that develops markets and supports a family of privileged identity management and vulnerability management products for unix linux windows and mac os operating systems . beyondtrust was originally founded in 2006 and provided least privilege management software for the microsoft windows os before unix vendor symark acquired beyondtrust in 2009 and adopted beyondtrust as the new company name . 1 2 3 contents 1 history of beyondtrust 1.1 symark 1.2 the original beyondtrust 1.3 acquisitions 2 references history of beyondtrust edit symark edit symark was founded in 1985 as a vax vms utility software company in los angeles san fernando valley . its name derives from the initials of its founders bob sommers and doug yarrow . symark was also a client server computing vendor before later acquiring a license for the unix security product upm now owned by quest software and rebranding their version powerbroker . 4 symark relocated to westlake village california then again to agoura hills . the company was focused on identity access and password management for privileged users on unix 5 systems . from 2003 2008 the company expanded in spain portugal japan and latin america . during the same time period they also grew almost 300 percent and were one of the fastest growing private companies in the l.a. area . the original beyondtrust edit in 2003 autoprof introduced the autoprof policy maker which was the first commercial product citation needed to build upon microsoft s built in group policy objects to make common tasks like mapping network drives or sharing printer connections easier . in 2005 autoprof grew 90 % in revenue over the previous year 6 and changed their company name to desktopstandard . 7 four million desktops were under management of desktopstandard s software across 3 500 customers . between 2003 2005 desktopstandard added six products to their portfolio for rbac password management and identity access management on windows . acquisitions edit 2009 symark acquired the windows based business of beyondtrust in 2009 for approximately 20 million 8 and they adopted beyondtrust as the new company name . 9 2011 beyondtrust acquired software from likewise software . the acquisition expanded its portfolio of inside perimeter security capabilities for windows and unix based systems to include authentication and auditing management for cross platform and cloud environments . 10 may 2012 beyondtrust acquired vulnerability management pioneer eeye digital security . 11 december 2012 beyondtrust acquired blackbird group . 12 references edit by tim wilson dark reading . symark buys beyondtrust takes beyondtrust name . september 14 2009 . by steve ragan the tech herald . symark and beyondtrust best acquisition ever . september 14 2009 . by doug barney redmond magazine . desktop standard bought by microsoft mostly . october 3 2006 . retrieved on august 28 2009 . by alex woodie the linux beacon . symark tackles tough access control problems . april 2 2008 . unix privileged identity & access management . 2016 . press release . autoprof announces record year revenue growth . january 12 2005 . retrieved on august 28 2009 press release . article autoprof announces name change and releases group policy security product ; desktopstandard corporation provides application level security product to satisfy regulatory compliance needs . january 26 2005 . retrieved on august 28 2009 . http www.itworld.com beyondtrust by jackie noblett mass high tech . beyondtrust acquired by symark . september 14 2009 http www.networkcomputing.com wan security beyondtrust acquires assets of likewise 231001292 http www.reuters.com article 2012 05 10 idus166340 10 may 2012 bw20120510 http www.cmswire.com cms information management beyondtrust acquires blackbird group improves enterprise security 018713.php retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title beyondtrust & oldid 738277902 categories technology companies of the united statessecurity companiescompanies based in los angeles county californiacompanies based in rockingham county new hampshirecomputer security softwareunix security related softwareinformation technology companies of the united statescompanies based in carlsbad californiahidden categories articles with a promotional tone from november 2011all articles with a promotional toneall articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from january 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 september 2016 at 00 23 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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