Finjan was a company which provided enterprise web security solutions, including real-time and behavior-based malware prevention, before being acquired by M86 Security in 2009.^[1] Finjan continues to hold patents for various Web security technologies.^[2][3] Prior to this acquisition, the company was headquartered in San Jose, California^[4]

History[link]

Finjan was founded in 1996 by Shlomo Touboul, a serial entrepreneur who founded his first company, Shani Computers, in 1985 and sold it to Intel in 1994. He then worked for Intel for a while, before starting Finjan.^[5] In 1998 Touboul decided to bring in an experienced seasoned CEO, who would be able to develop and grow the company more quickly, he then left to start his own venture capital fund.^[6]

In 2001, the company ran into financial difficulties^{[citation needed]} and Touboul was asked by the board of directors to rejoin the company as CEO. Touboul realigned the company's strategy, moving away from developing only software solutions to combined hardware and software security appliances; additionally, the company moved to a channel sales model.^[5] In December 2002 Finjan acquired ^[7] the assets of Alchemedia, a software developer with a DRM product called Clever Content, and several DRM patents; Alchemedia also had ties to Israel, as its founder Daniel Schreiber was Israeli, though the company was technically headquartered in the Dallas area. In 2005, following disagreements with the board^{[citation needed]}, Touboul left again and started a new company Yoggie Security Systems.^[6]

In October 2007 Eric Benhamou, former CEO and chairman of 3COM, was appointed as chairman of Finjan. He also invested in the company through his venture capital fund - Benhamou Global Ventures.^[8]

In November 2009 the company was sold to M86 Security, a global computer security firm based in Orange, California with international headquarters in London and offices worldwide.^[9]

Finjan appliances are now sold as M86 Secure Web Gateway appliances.

Investors[link]

Finjan was privately owned and its major shareholders included Cisco,^[10] Microsoft, Bessemer Venture Partners, Benchmark Capital, HarbourVest Partners and Israel Seed Partners. In November 2008, the company secured an additional investment of $22M, which brought the total capital invested in Finjan since its founding to $67 million.^[11]

Intellectual property and technology[link]

Finjan invented the concept of proactive content security with behavior-based content analysis technology. This and other selected technology patents were licensed to Microsoft in July 2005. In April 2009, Finjan's intellectual property portfolio included granted and pending patents in the areas of behavior-based security and digital rights management.^[10]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Finjan SecureBrowsing
• Butler Group research: Finjan Unified Secure Web Gateway, v9.2

Yafa Yarkoni (Hebrew: יפה ירקוני‎, also Yaffa Yarqoni, (24 December 1925 – 1 January 2012) was an Israeli singer, winner of the Israel Prize in 1998 for Hebrew song. She was dubbed Israel's “songstress of the wars” due to her frequent performances for Israel Defense Forces soldiers, especially in wartime.^[1] She was from a Kavkazi Jewish family.^[2]

Biography[link]

Yafa Abramov (later Yafa Gustin and Yafa Yarkoni) was born in Giv'at Rambam (today a neighbourhood of Giv'atayim) to a Jewish family that immigrated from the Caucasus. At the age of ten, she studied ballet dancing under Gertrude Kraus, one of Israel's dance pioneers.

In the 1940s, her mother ran a café in Givat Rambam, where Yafa performed with her sister Tikva and her brother Binyamin. On 21 September 1944, she married Joseph Gustin, who fought in World War II with the Jewish Brigade and was killed in battle in Italy in 1945.^[3]

Yarkoni married Shaike Yarkoni in 1948. ^[4]They had three daughters.^[5]

In 2000, Yarkoni was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.^[6][7] According to her daughter, Haaretz journalist Orit Shochat, her condition worsened in 2007. That year she appeared for the last time on a television show produced in her honor by the Israel Broadcasting Authority.

Music career[link]

In 1948, during Israel's War of Independence, Yarkoni joined an IDF song troupe affiliated with the Givati Brigade. Bab el-Wad, a song she performed at the time, became a classic, sung every year on Israel's Memorial Day. After the war, she performed songs for a program on the Kol Yisrael radio station.^[8]

Most of Yarkoni's songs were written by Tuli Reviv and Haim Hefer.^[9] Yarkoni also performed some of Naomi Shemer's early children's songs.

Among her most well-known songs are "Don't Say Goodbye, Say I Will See You," about a soldier parting from his girlfriend before battle, and "Road to Jerusalem," about soldiers transporting food to Jerusalem when the city was under siege in 1948. ^[10]

Awards[link]

In 1998, Yarkoni was awarded the Israel Prize, for Hebrew song.^[11] In 2005, she was voted the 153rd-greatest Israeli of all time, in a poll by the Israeli news website Ynet to determine whom the general public considered the 200 Greatest Israelis.^[12]

Death[link]

On 1 January 2012, Yarkoni died at Reut Medical Center in Tel Aviv. She is buried in the Kiryat Shaul cemetery in Tel Aviv, beside her husband.^[13]

See also[link]

• List of Israel Prize recipients

References[link]

External links[link]

• Nathan Shahar, Yafa Yarkoni, Jewish Women Encyclopedia
• Yafa Yarkoni at the Internet Movie Database
• Yafa Yarkoni at MOOMA (Hebrew)