Gigya, Inc. is a technology company founded in

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and headquartered in

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with additional offices in

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, and

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Offering

Gigya offers a customer identity management platform for managing profiles, preference, opt-in and consent settings. Gigya's technology is used by many corporations including

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, RTL Netherlands, Campbells,

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, ASOS, and Turner according to the company's website. Gigya offers an identity management platform for businesses which includes products for customized registration,

social login Social login is a form of single sign-on using existing information from a social networking service such as Facebook, Twitter or Google, to sign into a third party website instead of creating a new login account specifically for that website. It i ...

user profile A user profile is a collection of settings and information associated with a user. It contains critical information that is used to identify an individual, such as their name, age, portrait photograph and individual characteristics such as ...

and preference management, user engagement and loyalty, and integrations with third-party marketing and services platforms.

History

Gigya was founded in

, Israel in 2006. Patrick Salyer became CEO in March 2011. Gigya has worked with SAP Hybris since 2013. As of November 2014, Gigya had raised $104M from

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(parent company of

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, Common Fund Capital, Vintage Investment Partners, and Greenspring Associates.Liyakasa, Kelly (September 19, 2013).
Gigya banks $25M from ExactTarget investor Greenspring
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is also an investor. In a 2017 press release, Gigya was named leader in "The Forrester Wave: Customer Identity And Access Management, Q2 2017." In September 2017, the company was acquired by

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for $350 million. In October 2017, Gigya Introduced enterprise preference manager to address new privacy regulations.

2014 hacking incident

On 27 November 2014, the

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hijacked the gigya.com domain by changing its DNS configuration at the domain registrar directly, outside of Gigya's system and control. Shortly after the incident, the CEO of Gigya, Patrick Salyer confirmed the news officially on Gigya's blog stating that no data was compromised, and that the issue had been resolved within an hour of Gigya identifying the issue. The next day, on 28 November 2014, the Syrian Electronic Army issued a statement taking responsibility for the attack.

References

External links

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Offering

History

2014 hacking incident

See also

References

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