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Veriato, formerly known as SpectorSoft, is a
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that develops and sells
user behavior analytics User behavior analytics (UBA) is a cybersecurity process regarding the detection of insider threats, targeted attacks, and financial fraud that tracks a system's users. UBA looks at patterns of human behavior, and then analyzes observations to det ...
and
employee monitoring software Employee monitoring software is a means of employee monitoring, and allows company administrators to monitor and supervise all their employee computers from a central location. It is normally deployed over a business network and allows for easy c ...
. It is based in
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, located in
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, in the United States.


History

Founded in 1998, the company was an early entrant in internet monitoring software. In 2008,
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firms Harbourvest Partners and WestView Capital Partners invested in the company, taking a majority ownership position. SpectorSoft originally serviced both consumer and business customers, but no longer sells software for consumer or home use. In 2011, the company opened their West Palm Beach office and London office. In 2012 SpectorSoft acquired the assets of Corner Bowl Software. On March 31, 2015, the company completely exited the consumer market. In 2016 the company was renamed Veriato, Inc. On June 12, 2019, Veriato was acquired by
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.


Awards and honors

Spector Pro was given the ''
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'' editors' choice award in a 2002 review of six computer activity monitoring tools. In 2004, version 5.0 of Spector Pro was again given the editors' choice award from a field of four programs. In 2008 Spector 360 SR3 won the PC Magazine editors' choice award. In 2004, SpectorSoft was listed for the first time as one of ''Inc.'' magazine's Top 500 fastest-growing private companies in America, at position 224. The company achieved a position on the list once again in 2005 at number 497. In 2009 SpectorSoft made the list of Inc. 5000 Companies at number 3340. In 2010 and 2011 SpectorSoft again made the Inc. Magazine 500/5000 list. Spectorsoft−Veriato products have been mentioned in
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''. In 2014, Spectorsoft won the SC Magazine Europe Best Fraude Prevention Award and the Best of Interop 2014 - Security Award for their Spector 360 Recon product


Patent Infringement case

Patent Infringement Case Helios Software LLC et al. v. SpectorSoft Corporation has concluded. In September 2014, the Court granted summary judgment of non-infringement as to the ‘571 and ‘237 Patents. In June 2015, after a five-day trial, a jury returned a verdict of no direct or indirect infringement by SpectorSoft of the ‘304 Patent, and also found several of the asserted claims of that patent invalid as both anticipated and rendered obvious by prior art (see Docket Entry No. 615 for Civ. No. 12-081-LPS).


See also

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Computer monitoring Computer and network surveillance is the monitoring of computer activity and data stored locally on a computer or data being transferred over computer networks such as the Internet. This monitoring is often carried out covertly and may be comple ...
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Employee monitoring software Employee monitoring software is a means of employee monitoring, and allows company administrators to monitor and supervise all their employee computers from a central location. It is normally deployed over a business network and allows for easy c ...


References

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