company traded as nasdaq scwx industry managed security service headquarters atlanta georgia u.s. area served north america europe middle east asia africa south america key people michael r. cote president chief executive officer and director stacie hagan vice president human resources kevin hanes vice president global consulting & delivery george hanna vice president general counsel barry hensley vice president counter threat unit ctu and cyber threat analysis center ctac wayne jackson chief financial officer jon r. ramsey chief technology officer tyler winkler vice president global sales & marketing rob scudiere vice president engineering services managed ids ips network ips with isensor firewall management firewall audit next generation firewall managed utm web app firewall host ips security monitoring log monitoring log retention sim on demand vulnerability management web app scanning pci scanning threat intelligence email security web security services consulting parent dell technologies website www.secureworks.com secureworks inc. is a united states based subsidiary that provides information security services protecting its customers computers networks and information assets from malicious activity such as cybercrime . the company has thousands of customers ranging from fortune 100 companies to mid sized businesses in a variety of industries . 1 it became part of dell in february 2011 and branched off to become a public organization in april 2016 . it is still majority owned by dell . history edit secureworks was founded as a privately held company in 1998 by michael pearson aj galiano and joan wilbanks . in 2002 michael r. cote became president and ceo . in 2005 and again in 2006 the company was named to the inc. 500 and inc. 5000 lists 2005 2 2006 3 and deloitte s fast 500 . 4 in 2006 secureworks merged with lurhq corporation and the new entity continued under the secureworks corporate name . lurhq which was founded in 1996 in myrtle beach sc and provided managed security services to large enterprises had similar company cultures and leadership to secureworks . according to gartner the merger created a stronger company . 5 with the merger secureworks was able to leverage sherlock lurhq s portal to unify its combined customer base onto a single integrated security management platform . 5 in 2009 secureworks acquired the managed security services mss business from verisign inc. a provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and grew to more than 500 employees worldwide . 6 the acquisition expanded its clients to approximately 2 600 in more than 50 countries including the united kingdom saudi arabia taiwan finland spain brazil and mexico . this includes four of the fortune 10 . also in 2009 secureworks acquired the then 10 year old dns limited . this acquisition expanded secureworks operation to include a uk based operations center and additional offices in london and edinburgh . 7 on january 4 2011 dell announced that it would acquire secureworks to be part of dell services . dell secureworks officially began operating as a dell subsidiary on february 7 2011 . 8 dell secureworks continued to expand its portfolio around the world and in may of 2013 it arrived in the anz region . the move to australia and new zealand put dell in the ring of the security services market with companies like ibm hp and verizon . 9 dell secureworks opened an operations center in sydney to meet demands from local australia businesses the most in demand services in this area being penetration testing forensic investigations and ongoing monitoring of environments for attacks . 10 on december 17 2015 dell subsidiary secureworks filed to go public . 11 12 on april 22 2016 secureworks announced its ipo raising 112 million after pricing its ipo at 14 per share . however the company was expecting the initial price to be between 15.50 17.50 . this was the first tech ipo in the u.s. in 2016 . 13 references edit 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