Finjan was a company which provided enterprise web security solutions, including real-time and behavior-based malware prevention, before being acquired by M86 Security in 2009. Finjan continues to hold patents for various Web security technologies. Prior to this acquisition, the company was headquartered in San Jose, California Finjan was founded in 1996 by Shlomo Touboul, a serial entrepreneur who founded his first company, Shani Computers, in 1985 and sold it to Intel in 1994. He then worked for Intel for a while, before starting Finjan. In 1998 Touboul decided to bring in an experienced... seasoned CEO, who would be able to develop and grow the company more quickly, he then left to start his own venture capital fund. In 2001, the company ran into financial difficulties and Touboul was asked by the board of directors to rejoin the company as CEO. Touboul realigned the company's strategy, moving away from developing only software solutions to combined hardware and software security appliances; additionally, the company moved to a channel sales model.
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