OMICRON is a technology company that builds and operates internet infrastructure at scale. The company runs a global IP network backbone built from scratch, a content delivery network delivering terabits of online video, and software powering USENET - the world's first social network. Its technical stack spans HTTP, NNTP, network engineering, online storage, content delivery, and VPN systems. With offices in Winter Park, Florida; Phoenix; and Amsterdam, OMICRON has raised more than $1 billion in financing and acquired more than 12 online businesses.
For security professionals, the operational surface area is the draw. OMICRON builds and maintains a VPN product used globally by consumers and businesses, alongside the network backbone and CDN that underpin it. That means the threat model runs deep: protecting network infrastructure, securing content delivery at terabit scale, hardening VPN protocols, and defending storage and delivery systems that serve a massive user base. The company's security work isn't bolted on - it's embedded in the architecture of products that handle real traffic at real scale.
The company describes itself as an innovation incubator of scalable platform-based products, with a track record of building and integrating acquisitions into its stack. Its latest project, Halogen, aims to democratize broadcasting. Teams operate across networking, storage, content delivery, and privacy tooling - all domains where security engineering intersects directly with infrastructure reliability and user trust.