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Ivanti () is an IT software company headquartered in South Jordan, Utah, United States. It produces software for
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,
IT Service Management Information technology service management (ITSM) are the activities performed by an organization to design, build, deliver, operate and control IT services offered to customers. Differing from more technology-oriented IT management approach ...
, IT Asset Management,
Unified Endpoint Management Unified endpoint management (UEM) is a class of software tools that provide a single management interface for mobile, PC and other devices. It is an evolution of, and replacement for, mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobility manageme ...
,
Identity Management Identity and access management (IAM or IdAM) or Identity management (IdM), is a framework of policies and technologies to ensure that the right users (that are part of the ecosystem connected to or within an enterprise) have the appropriate acce ...
and
supply chain management In commerce, supply chain management (SCM) deals with a system of procurement (purchasing raw materials/components), operations management, logistics and marketing channels, through which raw materials can be developed into finished produc ...
. It was formed in January 2017 with the merger of LANDESK and HEAT Software, and later acquired Cherwell Software. The company became more widely known after several major security incidents related to the VPN hardware it sells.


History


LANDESK

LAN Systems was founded in 1985 and its software products acquired by
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in 1991 to form its LANDESK division. LANDESK introduced the desktop management category in 1993. In 2002 LANDESK Software became a standalone company with headquarters near
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, Utah. In 2006, Avocent purchased the company for $416 million. Also in 2006, LANDESK added process management technologies to its product line and extended into the consolidated service desk market with LANDESK Service Desk. In 2010 LANDESK was acquired by private equity firm
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. LANDESK bought supply chain software company Wavelink in 2012, network
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and patch management company
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in 2013, application software company Naurtech Corporation in 2014, data visualisation company Xtraction Solutions in 2015. and AppSense, a provider of secure user environment management technology, in 2016.


Lumension Security

Lumension Security, Inc was founded as High Tech Software in 1991 and headquartered in
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About Us
Lumension.com. Retrieved 04-04-2013.
The company was rebranded as PatchLink Corporation in 1999. In 2006, Patrick Clawson was appointed chairman, CEO and presidentPatchLink Adds Security Industry Veteran Patrick Clawson to Drive Next Wave of Growth
Lumension.com. 2006-08-14. Retrieved 2013-04-11.
The company then adopted the Lumension name in 2007. In 2009 Lumension acquired Securityworks, and in 2012 acquired CoreTrace. Lumension products traditionally competed in the endpoint management and security industry against
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,
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,
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, Symantec and
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among
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.


HEAT

HEAT software was a producer of software for IT Service Management and Endpoint Management formed in 2015 by the merger of FrontRange Solutions and Lumension Security.


Ivanti

In January 2017
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, owner of HEAT Software, purchased LANDESK from Thoma Bravo. On January 23, 2017, LANDESK and HEAT Software merged to form Ivanti. The combined company has 1,800 employees in 23 countries and markets some products with references to their original names such as Wavelink supply chain software and Ivanti patch product ‘powered by Shavlik’. On April 12, 2017, Ivanti acquired Concorde Solutions, a UK based Software Asset Management company. In July 2017, Ivanti acquired RES Software, a US and Netherlands based company producing automation and identity management software. Later merged in 2018 into the Workspace Manager product. In September 2020, Ivanti entered into an agreement to acquire US based
Unified Endpoint Management Unified endpoint management (UEM) is a class of software tools that provide a single management interface for mobile, PC and other devices. It is an evolution of, and replacement for, mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobility manageme ...
company MobileIron for $872 million and San Jose, California based Pulse Secure, for undisclosed terms. On December 1, 2020, Ivanti announced those acquisitions completed. On January 26, 2021, Ivanti announced the intent to acquire Cherwell Software. On August 2, 2021, Ivanti acquired RiskSense, a pioneer in risk-based vulnerability management and prioritization, to drive the next evolution of patch management.


Controversies


2021 Pulse Connect Secure hack

On April 20, 2021, cybersecurity firm
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reported that hackers with suspected
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ties exploited Pulse Secure VPN to break into government agencies, defense companies and financial institutions in Europe and the US. The report detailed how hackers repeatedly took advantage of several known and one novel flaw in Pulse Secure VPN to gain access to dozens of organizations in the defense industrial sector. The
US Department of Homeland Security The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is the U.S. federal executive department responsible for public security, roughly comparable to the interior, home, or public security ministries in other countries. Its missions involv ...
confirmed the intrusions in a public advisory, urging network administrators to scan for signs of compromise. Ivanti published an emergency workaround which DHS urged network admins to install. The
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ordered federal civilian agencies to take several steps to reduce risk from the suspected breach. FireEye reported that some of the intrusions using the vulnerabilities began as early as August 2020, conducted by those with suspected ties to the Chinese government. There were similarities between the hack and intrusions in 2014 and 2015 conducted by a Chinese espionage actor named APT5. After further examination, CISA discovered that at least 5 federal agencies had been breached, among 24 agencies that use the Pulse Connect Secure products.


Other incidents

In January 2024, Chinese government hackers were reported to have targeted Ivanti software to break into other organizations.


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