About Us

Kindsight is a value-added services provider specializing in network-based security solutions for residential internet use. We deliver an always-on, always-up-to-date security service embedded in internet service providers’ networks to address what we call the “flawed malware defense cycle”. Our solution has industry-leading network intrusion and threat detection capability that complements today’s consumer (i.e. PC/Mac based) security offerings.

Kindsight’s technology delivers increased levels of protection by notifying users of the presence of malware within an ISP subscriber’s home network. Today’s multi-PC home environments are ideal for hackers to attack since it’s arduous to keep anti-virus and anti-spyware applications and firewalls up-to-date on every computer.  It only takes one missed update to enable a significant vulnerability with the user’s data. And once present, many of today’s malware will disable the security application from requesting future updates thus allowing the threat to continue to persist.

By comparison, Kindsight determines the presence of malware by monitoring network traffic emanating from the residential high-speed line. Since the solution is in the network, it can only be turned off by the subscriber’s actions, and is continually kept up-to-date by Kindsight and the participating ISP.

The Kindsight service, as with other free on-line applications such as search engines and map functions, is funded through an advertising mechanism but without the use of cookies, pop-ups or spam. Instead, we deliver ads on sites that are of interest to the subscriber base. To the consumer, this experience will be very similar to how some of the major search engines operate today. However, the Kindsight solution is built around privacy practices that surpass those implemented by today’s leading online application providers.

Kindsight was created through a spin-out from Alcatel-Lucent (ALU). Formerly known as Project Rialto, Kindsight is led by an experienced management team with expertise and deep relationships from the networking, security and online applications domains.

Kindsight has development centers in Sunnyvale, California and Ottawa, Ontario.