Rising is a Chinese software company that produces the anti-virus software Rising Antivirus, a firewall, UTM and spam-blocking products. Primary products are Rising Antivirus, Rising Personal Firewall, Rising UTM and Rising IS. Founded in 1991, Rising is a privately owned company, with its global headquarters based in Zhongguancun in Beijing, China. The company has subsidiaries and branch offices in Shanghai, Guangzhou, Australia and Beijing. It is one of China's largest anti-virus software companies, with over 500 employees and an estimated 50% Chinese home users (of more than 100 million computer users).
About (from Beijing Rising Information Technology Co., Ltd. at www.rising-global.com)
“Beijing Rising International Software Co.,Ltd. was established in April 1998. Its predecessor, established in 1991, is Beijing Rising Computer Technology Development Department. RISING is one of the earliest enterprises engaged in computer virus prevention in the world. RISING is dedicated to the research, development, production and sale of computer antivirus products, network security products, and anti-hacker products. RISING possesses all the intellectual property rights and a number of patented technologies for all the products.
RISING has introduced a variety of operating system based antivirus software, firewall software and enterprise antivirus wall, firewall, network security warning system and other hardware products. RISING is the third company in the world and the only one in China to provide a full range of information security products and professional services. RISING has one of the largest, most powerful anti-virus and network security research and development team in the world. RISING has successfully set up four major network security systems: The Global Computer Virus Monitoring Network, The Global Computer Virus Emergency Response Network, The Global Computer Virus Forecast Network, and The Global Computer Virus Service Network.”