Cuatroochenta, a company with its main headquarters in Espaitec, intensifies its cybersecurity services in the face of increased demand, intensifies its internationalization and opens a new line of non-code-low code services while maintaining its close ties with the Universitat Jaume I in different security projects. R&D and as the main source of talent acquisition
Four eighty, with its main headquarters in Espaitec, continues to expand its horizons while maintaining its roots firm. Born in a meeting of entrepreneurs in the Park 11 years ago, the cloud technology and cybersecurity company has made a quantitative and qualitative leap, exceed its international business by 15% in the last financial year, mainly driven by the services of ciberseguridad, and also the 250 people in the team, spread across 6 countries. All this, without ceasing deepen your links with the university where its founding partners were formed, Sergio Aguado y Alfredo R. Cebrián, and which continues to provide the highest percentage of new employees in the company thanks to its ambitious training and R&D project.
The excellent evolution of cybersecurity services and products Four eighty in 2021, both in Latin America as in Spain, have led to the income of its specialized unit, Sophisticated, grow 29% due to increased demand. A growth that has gone parallel to the strengthening of the team in Panama, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, Spain And from now, United States. Among the main clients, financial entities, critical infrastructures and large companies stand out, relying on the 24/7 monitoring service of the Security Operations Center (SOC) and strategic alliances with partners such as Dark Trace, Crowdstrike o Exabeam.
Proof of the evolution of the company, which Since 2020, it has been listed on BME Growth, Is that in In 2021, its workforce grew by 42%. Between the more than 70 new professionals who joined Four eighty, mostly programmers, Universitat Jaume I became the one again more graduates and graduates contributed. In fact, the UJI internship students carry out a specialized technical training within the R&D department, with an exclusive dedicated trainer, and under the direct supervision of the company's CIO and co-founder, Sergio Aguado.
A transfer of knowledge between the university and the company that is completed with other research, training and technological dissemination initiatives between Four eighty and UJI, such as the Cuatroochenta Chair of Artificial Intelligence, Health and Wellbeing of the Universitat Jaume I, the PHP and Symfony Course in the FUE-UJI, the Mit4 project, Castelló Hackathon o Saturdays AI, among others.
Support for NoCodeFest
One of the avenues of innovation that the Cuatroochenta R&D department is the incorporation of low code-no code tools internally and in its catalog of products and services to bring them closer to their customers. So, Four eighty is one of the main sponsors of the third edition of the NoCodeFest, the largest meeting in Spain for create projects without programming a line of code, which will take place in the coworking Jeff Works in Valencia from May 20 to 22.