Cyberoam Inc.

Cyberoam Inc. is the U.S. entity of Cyberoam Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a network-security vendor founded in 1999 in Ahmedabad, India, originally as a division of Elitecore Technologies. It is an operating company, not a patent assertion entity. In February 2014 Sophos announced it had acquired Cyberoam Technologies, making Cyberoam 100%-owned by Sophos; at the time of the deal press materials cited roughly 550 employees, more than 65,000 customers, and a channel network of about 5,500 partners concentrated in India, the Middle East, and Africa. Sophos itself is UK-headquartered and publicly listed (LSE: SOPH). Cyberoam also maintained a U.S. office in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Products / operations. Cyberoam built identity-based Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances and next-generation firewalls, sold as Intel-based hardware and as virtual machines, spanning small-office models through large-enterprise units. Its main lines included UTM/Next-Gen Firewall appliances, the Cyberoam Central Console (CCC) for centralized device management, the iView logging, reporting, and compliance tool, and NetGenie for small-office/home-office security. Security modules (antivirus, anti-spam, IPS, web/application filtering) were bundled with subscription-based feature licensing. After the acquisition, Cyberoam technology was folded into Sophos's network-security portfolio.

Patent-litigation posture. The structured data shows a single tracked case and zero plaintiff appearances — Cyberoam is purely a defendant here. That profile is consistent with an operating company defending against an infringement suit rather than an NPE asserting acquired patents. The lone suit sits in the District of Delaware, a common venue for corporate patent litigation, rather than a plaintiff-heavy venue such as the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable case. Alcatel-Lucent USA Inc. v. Cyberoam Inc. et al. (D. Del., filed May 20, 2014) named Cyberoam and co-defendant Sophos Inc. Alcatel-Lucent asserted five patents (US 6,286,050; 6,347,087; 6,888,797; 6,944,183; 7,143,438) covering network security and network management, targeting Sophos/Cyberoam products. Reported coverage grouped this with a parallel Alcatel-Lucent action against Fortinet; terms or outcomes of the Cyberoam matter are not established in the available case data.