Area 1 Security, Inc. was an American cybersecurity company based in Redwood City, California[1] which was acquired by Cloudflare in April 2022.[2]
History
Area 1 was incorporated in 2013 by Oren Falkowitz, Blake Darché, and Phil Syme, previously employees of the U.S. National Security Agency.[3] The company received venture capital financing led by Kleiner Perkins.[4]
In December 2018, Area 1 identified a Chinese government cyber campaign targeting more than 100 intergovernmental organizations, ministries of foreign affairs, ministries of finance, trade unions, and think tanks, which included breach of the European Union diplomatic communications network.[5]