ScanSafe, a
privately held company backed by investors
Benchmark Capital and Scale Venture Partners, is a provider of Web
security-as-a-service for organizations. Co-founded in 1999 by brothers Eldar and Roy Tuvey, its services block
malware and secure the use of the
Web and
messaging. Noted as being the first to successfully deliver a Secure Web Gateway service, the company competes with similar services offered by
MessageLabs and
Websense.
ScanSafe has offices in
London,
England and
San Mateo,
California and maintains
alliance partnerships with
Google,
AT&T, Integralis,
Kaspersky,
Telus,
NEC, SoftScan, TopNordic, Viatel, Ancoris, and FVC.
MessageLabs, a provider of
Messaging services ended a strategic partnership between the two companies in
2006. MessageLabs introduced a competing in-house product titled Web Security Service Version 2, resulting in a court judgment which required MessageLabs notify all prospective clients that the Version 2 service is not based on previous ScanSafe technology.
In 2007 ScanSafe was named one of the top 100 techology startups in the world by
Red Herring, awarded Best Software as a Service (SaaS) Solution by the
Codie awards and won Best Content Security Solution in consecutive years (2007, 2008) as voted by SC Magazine readers. A 2007 report by
Gartner identified ScanSafe as a visionary in the Secure Web Gateway (SWG) market, acknowledging innovative new services and a significant install base but noted limited reporting capabilities in comparison to other providers and having to operate in an increasingly competitive market.
In November 2007 a malware outbreak on the
Indiatimes website was reported by ScanSafe. Whilst the website wasn't the only victim, the attack was notable due to the popularity of the website and in the number of vulnerabilities the malware attempted to exploit.
Alexa regularly ranks Indiatimes as one of the top 250 most visited websites.
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