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Top Cybersecurity Companies for 2021

eSecurity Planet

This includes antivirus, identity protection, SIEM (where Gartner names it a Leader), endpoint protection (graded a Visionary by Gartner) and secure web gateways (Gartner Challenger). Founded: 2011. McAfee has been a major player in security for a long time. Learn more about McAfee. Crowdstrike. Annual Revenue: $1.4

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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

Severa ran several affiliate programs that paid cybercriminals to trick people into installing fake antivirus software. In 2011, KrebsOnSecurity dissected “SevAntivir” — Severa’s eponymous fake antivirus affiliate program — showing it was used to deploy new copies of the Kelihos spam botnet.

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