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U.S.-based cybersecurity giant Malwarebytes today launched ThreatDown , a new brand that encompasses its byplay software portfolio and B2B - focused unit , the company reassert to TechCrunch .
Earlier this yr , Malwarebytes let go of roughly 100 employeesas part of a all-encompassing plan to separate the society into two freestanding business units , Malwarebytes CEO Marcin Kleczynski , who found the company in 2008 , told TechCrunch at the time .
Kleczynski has today made this split functionary with the launching of ThreatDown , formerly Malwarebytes for Business . The newly rebranded business organisation social unit will focus on enterprise - look computer software , include managed and endpoint detection , while Malwarebytes will continue center on consumer tools , identity protection and its VPN , Kleczynski told TechCrunch in the lead of the split .
Both the consumer and corporate - focused business organisation unit will operate under the Malwarebytes executive squad and Kleczynski ’s leaders as CEO , he said .
“ The troupe has evolve from its remediation beginning , and this fresh firebrand and production portfolio contemplate that evolution alongside the changing threat landscape painting , ” Kleczynski tell TechCrunch . “ The launching of ThreatDown formalizes the concern social unit focused on serving IT - restrain organizations and television channel partners . ”
“ Operationally , this distinction allow employee to focalise exclusively on the specific security challenge they ’re work out for each customer section , ” he lend .
Kleczynski said the company does not project to make any further layoffs as a result of the formalization of the split but noted that the move “ shifted our need for some high - level persona , ” including principal technology ship’s officer . ( A former Malwarebytes employee antecedently told TechCrunch that the ship’s company lay off its chief engineering officer , primary product ship’s officer and chief information officeholder . )
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Kleczynski said that the company has no plans to lease new executive - storey character at this metre . “ We have elderly leaders in property to moderate both our intragroup and external technology teams , ” he said . “ I ’ve also stepped in to lead the product brass as I powerfully believe the society need to be product - led . ”
As he told TechCrunch back in August , Kleczynski reiterated that Malwarebytes is not actively pursuing a sales agreement of any part of its clientele or further funding followingits $ 100 million investment last class from Vector Capital , a private equity firm that invests in established engineering businesses .
Kleczynski said that Malwarebytes remains “ salubrious and profitable . ” The companionship has about 20,000 business customers .
“ We ’re pleased with our partnership with Vector and not proactively research for extra funding , ” Kleczynski said . “ Right now , I ’m focused on getting the new steel name into the market and continue to build up the right engineering science and services to dish resource - constrained organizations . ”
How Marcin Kleczynski go from message boards to founding anti - malware startup Malwarebytes
