On March 2, 2015 Proofpoint announced that they have signed a definitive to acquire Emerging Threats. Emerging Threats is a world-leading provider of commercial and open source threat intelligence. Founded in 2003 as a cyber security research community, Emerging Threats has become the de facto standard in network-based malware threat detection. The company’s IQRisk® Suite of threat intelligence products delivers time-tested, comprehensive actionable data with historical, correlated threat intelligence to support context for the latest malware coverage and in-depth threat analysis. IQRisk Suite combines IQRisk Query, IQRisk Rep List, and the ETPro® Ruleset to provide the highest level of timely and accurate threat intelligence and prevention to protect networks from data exfiltration and a wide variety of malicious threats that include exploits and malware. Used by many G2000 companies, Emerging Threats products and solutions are easy-to-deploy, making them ideal for OEMs, enterprises, government agencies, financial institutions, SMBs, higher education, and managed service providers.