A brief history of Swivel

  • 2000  Company formed.
  • 2001  Initial funding from the MARR Group
  • 2003  First commercial version of PINsafe launched (Version 2).
  • 2003  Signed first UK distribution agreement.
  • 2003  Marr Group take 100% ownership Swivel Secure.
  • 2004  First 1,000+ user customer.
  • 2004  First UK reseller partner (Eurodata, who are now a Premier Partner).
  • 2004  First North American customer
  • 2005  PINsafe re-architected and released as Version 3.0.
  • 2005  Listed in Gartner Cool Vendor report
  • 2005  First Australian Customer.
  • 2006  Info Security HOT Companies award.
  • 2007  High Availability Appliance solution released.
  • 2007  First 10,000+ user customer.
  • 2008  First 50,000+ user customer.
  • 2009  3.6 Released with multiple security strings per SMS.
  • 2010  First CCTM accreditation.
  • 2011  Cohort Technology announced as New UK Distributor.
  • 2011  Turkish distributor signed; Swivel’s 34th country with active distribution.
  • 2012  Swivel awarded 4.75/5 in SC (US) multi-factor product Group Test
  • 2012  New brand launched (“The power of knowing”).
  • 2012  Swivel Version 3.9, telephone-based authentication added.
  • 2012  First entry in Gartner Magic Quadrant.