About Us

Awareness Technologies is a privately-held security software company based in Los Angeles, CA. It was founded in 2002, originally to provide software tools for national intelligence agencies, but shifted its focus five years ago to building the most practical and powerful security software for businesses and consumers. Awareness Technologies has developed and owns InterGuard, WebWatcher, and Laptop Cop, each a leader in its segment, and each making use of Awareness Technologies’ patented technology.

Awareness Technologies was recently named a 2008 winner of Deloitte’s Fast 500 award, given to the fastest-growing technology and life sciences companies in North America. To better serve its customers, Awareness Technologies remains a private company, 100% owned and run by its management. Our customers include Cabinet-level agencies in the USA, leading corporations worldwide, along with schools, law enforcement, hospitals. For all customers, we deliver the highest-level of performance and innovation, at highly competitive prices.

Product information available at: www.interguardsoftware.com, a leading desktop-based data loss prevention and web-filtering software; www.laptopcopsoftware.com, the most complete laptop theft protection software; www.webwatchernow.com,, the number one internet-based parental monitoring software in the industry.

Press Release:
Awareness Technologies Winner of Deliotte's "Technology Fast 500 Award".
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Senior Management

Peter Fuhrman is our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Peter has over 20 years in senior management roles in the software, media, finance and venture capital industries. He first began working with Awareness Technologies five years ago, and joined the company full-time in 2008. He previously served as Chairman & CEO of a finance company through its Initial Private Offering process on NASDAQ, and before that, CEO of a Los Angeles venture capital corporation with a broad-based portfolio of software and technology companies in US, Europe and Israel. Earlier in his career, he was an investor and board member of a Philadelphia-based consumer software company that achieved a position of market leadership in the US, and also spent nearly a decade in global business publishing and journalism, rising to become Forbes Magazine’s senior-most journalist and executive in Europe. He did his undergraduate degree at Tufts University, and has his Masters from Cambridge University in Great Britain. He also serves as chairman of China First Capital, Ltd, a boutique investment bank based in China.

Tom Bilyeu is Awareness Technologies’ Chief Operating Officer. Tom joined the company soon after its founding, in 2003. From the beginning, he has played a formative role in both developing the features and functions of our software, and leading our sales and marketing activities. Tom is responsible for delivering our high levels of customer satisfaction and guiding the strategic development of our software to meet increasingly complex customer needs. He also oversees our relationships with partner-resellers in retail and the VAR channel. Tom is a graduate of University of Southern California.

Jason Fitch is our Chief Technology Officer. He has been with the company since its inception in 2002, and now oversees our programming team based in our Los Angeles headquarters. Jason previously was CTO of a successful internet software business that was sold to a publicly-traded company in the US. Jason has extensive experience designing and managing the development of our enterprise software suite, both our patent-protected client agent and our SaaS-based infrastructure. Jason is a graduate of Case Western Reserve.