AhnLab, Inc.

AhnLab, Inc.
㈜안랩

Logo of AhnLab, Inc.
Type	Private
Traded as	KRX: 053800
Industry	Computer software
Founded	Seoul, South Korea (15 March 1995 (1995-03-15))
Founder	Ahn Cheol-Soo
Headquarters	Seongnam-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea
Number of locations	4
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Ahn Cheol-Soo (founder), HongSun Kim(CEO), Kim Cheol-Soo (former CEO)
Products	Antivirus software, Network security products, Mobile security products
Services	Computer security, Network security
Revenue	₩126,757,000,000 (2012)[1]
Owner	HongSun Kim
Number of employees	850 (2013)
Website	Korean(HQ) http://www.ahnlab.com
Footnotes / references [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

AhnLab, Inc., founded in 1995, is a security software provider in South Korea. AhnLab sells computer software such as antivirus software, online security, network security appliances such as Advanced Threat (Malware) Detection & Remediation, including APT type of cyber attack, firewalls, IPS, UTM, and security software for online games and the mobile web.

History

Establishment of AhnLab

Ahn Cheol-Soo (founder) found his computer infected with the computer virus called (c)brain. He developed a program to find and remove it and named it "Vaccine". Since then, anti-virus software has been called "Vaccine software" in Korea. He distributed the antivirus program to the public without charge, until he established AhnLab in 1995. Dr. Ahn promoted his new company in 1995.^[9][10]

Expansion

Since its founding in 1995, AhnLab has become one of the largest security software companies over 50% of market share in the Korean security market alone and approximately 500 distributors worldwide.^[11][12] In September 2001, AhnLab was listed in the KRX: 053800. Headquartered in Seongnam-Si, Gyeonggi-Do, South Korea, AhnLab is traded on the KOSDAQ under the symbol AhnLab.

On the tenth anniversary of the company's founding (2005), Ahn Cheol-Soo resigned his position as the CEO, Kim Cheol-Soo was appointed as the successor.^[7] Current CEO is HongSun Kim(appointed in 2008).^[13][14]

AhnLab has been selected as one of the Korea's most admired company for five years from 2004 to 2010.^[15][16][17]

On 4 October 2011, Ahnlab' Headquarters has moved to Seongnam-Si, Gyeonggi-Do.^[18] On 29 March 2012, Ahnlab' Korean company name has been changed from (주)안철수연구소 to (주)안랩 by the annual meeting of shareholders.

Locations

• Korea: 673, Sampyeong-Dong, Bundang-Gu, Seongnam-Si, Gyeonggi-Do. (Headquarters)
• Japan: 8F, Akihabara UDX Bldg, Sotokanda, Chiyoda, Tokyo.
• China: Rm.1206, Science Tower of Beijing Electronics Zone, No.12 of JiuxianQiao Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing, China

Products

AhnLab has many security software for PC, Network and Mobile, including:

• AhnLab V3 Internet Security (anti-virus, anti-spyware, anti-malware)
• AhnLab V3 Lite (version for personal use in free and technical testbed for commercial versions)
• AhnLab V3 365 Clinic (anti-virus, anti-spyware, pc medic)
• AhnLab TrusGuard (Firewall, VPN, IPS, against DDoS)
• AhnLab Absolute IPS (block worms and DDoS attack)
• AhnLab Online Security (anti-malware, anti-keylogger, firewall)
• AhnLab Mobile Security (windows mobile, symbian, Wifi OS,Wii,Nintendo DS/DSXL/3DS)
• AhnLab SecuGuard for PC (security for PC)
• AhnLab SiteGuard (Web filtering, protects against phishing websites and infected pages)
• AhnLab TrusGuard UTM for LTAD (for securing LTAD)

HackShield (2001 ~ 2015)

HackShield is a hacking and cheating prevention software suite and service^[19] for MMOs and has been used in games by Nexon and NCSoft.^[20] It has been available to Korean game developers since 2001^[20] and American game developers since 2005.^[21]

See also

• Computer security
• Network security

References

Further reading

• Kim, Tae-Jung (17 January 2008). "AhnLab Announces 7 Security Issues for 2008". ZDNet Korea. CBS Interactive. Retrieved 10 October 2013.