Elevate Security
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Elevate Security Inc., founded in 2017 and led by CEO and co-founder Robert Fly, offered a human risk management platform for enterprises. Analyzing billions of cyber events across phishing, malware, browsing, and data handling, it identified an organization's riskiest users with a precision risk-scoring algorithm — finding that 8% of a workforce causes 80% of security incidents — and automated responses, controls, and targeted security-awareness training.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Founded
Elevate Security was founded, building a human risk management platform for enterprises.
- Acquired by Mimecast
In January 2024, Mimecast announced it had acquired Elevate Security for an undisclosed price, planning to integrate its human-risk capabilities into Mimecast products including Awareness Training.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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