Security As-a-Service Provider For the Cloud, Alert Logic, Opens Seattle and UK Offices

Alert logic, a provider of security and compliance solutions for the cloud, headquartered in Houston, Texas, has recently expanded from Houston into London, Cardiff and Belfast, United Kingdom, as well as Seattle, Dallas, with the acquisition of security-scanning company Critical Watch.

Offering 24×7 security monitoring for enterprises with two Security Operation Centers (SOCs) on two continents, Alert Logic supports security solutions on every major public cloud platform including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Rackspace Cloud, IBM SoftLayer and VMware vCloud Air.

alert-logicThe new Seattle office will be staffed by a combination of Engineers, Sales, Business Development and Marketing employees. In addition, the office will contain the Alert Logic Executive Briefing Center, a briefing room and hospitality center designed to engage key customers, prospective customers and partners.

“Alert Logic is experiencing rapid growth having achieved our stated goal of reaching a $70 million run-rate in 2014 and surpassing 3,000 customers,” said Gray Hall, CEO of Alert Logic. “Seattle is an important technology hub and opening an office in Seattle puts us physically closer to a number of our customers and prospective customers, as well as key growth partners like AWS, Microsoft and Google.”

Built for cloud scale, Alert Logic’s patented Security-as-a-Service platform stores petabytes of data, analyzes over 450 million events and identifies over 60,000 security incidents each month, which are managed by their 24×7 Security Operations Centers (SOCs).