Invincea, Inc., the innovator in malware threat protection via virtualization, today announced $5.1 million in new funding and the acquisition of high profile talent from HP/ArcSight and RSA/NetWitness to capitalize on the rapidly growing interest in the company's innovative security solutions.

The security landscape shifted dramatically in 2011 with very high profile breaches of stock exchanges, financial institutions, large corporate enterprises, government agencies, national laboratories, state and local law enforcement, universities, and even the most heralded security firms. As evidenced by the headlines, not a single sector of the industrialized economy has gone untouched. 2011 has also seen confirmation of the breadth of perpetrators, from nation-sponsored hacker groups, to organized crime, to hacktivists with political agendas, and even lone wolves.

However, the common denominator among the attacks is that the user remains the target. Adversaries are getting into corporate networks by co-opting users through sophisticated spear phishes and opportunistic infections via the browser. This reality has put Invincea's industry-leading solution for insulating users from untrusted content through virtualization in high demand, and the company is growing rapidly. Market recognition of Invincea's innovative approach includes numerous awards, as well as interest and investment from all corners of the market:
Funding Growth: Received $5.1 million in growth capital led by Harbert Venture Partners, Grotech Ventures, and New Atlantic Ventures to expand Invincea's corporate sales, engineering, and marketing
Selling Power: Interest and buzz in Invincea's technology from public and private sectors alike is enabling the company to dramatically expand its sales department and attract top tier talent from successful security companies.

About Invincea
Invincea is the premier innovator in malware threat protection via virtualization to protect enterprise networks from cyber threats including spear phishing. The company's solutions offer a unique ability to protect networks against all types of threats directed at end users - including zero-days - by seamlessly moving applications that render untrusted content into controlled secure virtual environments that automatically detect and terminate threats in real time. Invincea Browser Protection and Invincea Document Protection seamlessly move the browser and PDF reader from the native operating system into fully virtualized and secure environments without changing the user experience. The products also harness desktop resources without requiring additional network bandwidth or footprint. The company, which was founded by Anup Ghosh to address the rapidly increasing security threat from Web-based malware, has commercialized technology originally built under DARPA funding. The company is venture capital-backed and based in Fairfax, Va.