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• September 2013 thru April 2015The Origins of Apache Metron - For about 24 months, a Cisco team, led by their chief data scientist James Sirota, with the help of a Hortonworks team, led by platform architect Sheetal Dolas, worked to create a next generation managed SOC service built on top of open source big data technologies. The Cisco OpenSOC managed SOC offering went into production for a number of customers in April of 2015. A short time after, Cisco made a couple of acquisitions that brought in third party technologies transforming OpenSOC into a closed source, hardware based version.

• December 20152015 Metron Accepted into Apache Incubation - Hortonworks, with the help and support of key Apache community partners, including ManTech, B23 and others, submit Metron  Metron (renamed from OpenSOC) is submitted and accepted as an Apache incubator project. In December of 2015, the project is accepted into Apache incubation. Hortonworks and the community innovate at impressive speeds to add new features to Apache Metron and harden the platform. The Metron team builds an extensible, open architecture to account for the variety of tools used in customer environments (thousands of firewalls, thousands of domains and a multitude of Intrusion Detection Systems). Metron’s open approach makes it much easier to tailor to the community’s use cases.

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