RSA Security LLC, It also organizes the annual RSA Conference, an information security conference. Founded as an independent company in 1982, RSA Security, Inc. was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2006 for US$2.1 billion and operates as a division within EMC. RSA is based in Bedford, Massachusetts, with regional headquarters in Bracknell and Singapore, and numerous international offices. Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir and Leonard Adleman, who developed the RSA encryption algorithm in 1977, founded RSA Data Security in 1982.
Verisign, Inc. is an American company based in Reston, Virginia, United States that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers, the authoritative registry for the.com,.net, and.name generic top-level domains and the.cc and.tv country-code top-level domains, and the back-end systems for the.jobs,.gov, and.edu top-level domains. Verisign also offers a range of security services, including managed DNS, Distributed Denial of Service mitigation and cyber-threat reporting.
