Английская Википедия:Clearswift
Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Third-party Шаблон:Infobox company Clearswift is an information security company based in the UK. It offers cyber-security services to protect business's data from internal and external threats.
The company is owned by Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based HelpSystems.
History
Clearswift was founded as NET-TEL in 1982.[1][2] One of the co-founders, John Horton, had previously worked at GEC and Acorn Computers.[3]
In 1988, NET-TEL launched Route400, the world's first mail client for MS-DOS (using the X.400 protocol). It was later ported to other platforms.[4][5]
In 1998, NET-TEL switched its main business to content filtering, as the popularity of the Microsoft Exchange Client took away the mail client market.[5]
In 2001, NET-TEL was rebranded as Clearswift, after a round of venture capital fundraising.[6]
In 2002, Clearswift acquired Content Technologies from Baltimore Technologies, along with the MIMEsweeper brand.[7]
Clearswift extended the MIMEsweeper line to include web and instant messaging filtering. These were marketed as protecting against the leakage of confidential company information on social networking sites - Clearswift argues that instead of banning Web 2.0 sites and services entirely, businesses can actually gain a competitive advantage by making use of them, provided their use is monitored.[8][9]
In 2003, the company received $6.07 million from its shareholders, including venture capital funds managed by Amadeus Capital Partners, BA Capital Partners, Cazenove Private Equity, and Kennet Partners.[10] Also, it was reported that Clearswift were the providers of a new email filtering system at the House of Commons, responsible for blocking Welsh language emails as "inappropriate content", and preventing MPs receiving copies of a Sexual Offences Bill.[11] Clearswift would not confirm that the House of Commons was a customer, citing customer confidentiality reasons.[6]
In April 2005 Clearswift began to market an SMTP appliance (email gateway) based upon the technology.[12]
In January 2008, failure to renew a domain name caused loss of email services to 5% of Clearswift's customers.[13]
In Dec 2009, Clearswift sold the Deep-Secure, Bastion and Flashpoint products in to a spin-off company, "Deep Secure".Шаблон:Citation needed
In November 2011, Clearswift was sold to Lyceum Capital.[14]
In August 2012, Clearswift acquired Jedda Systems Pty Ltd.[15]
In February 2013, Clearswift acquired Microdasys in order to strengthen its web product line.[16]
In January 2017, Clearswift was acquired by Swiss defense company RUAG as part of its RUAG Defence Cyber division.[17]
In December 2019, Clearswift was acquired by HelpSystems to expand its cybersecurity portfolio.[18]
Research & development
Clearswift has its main engineering office based in Arlington Business Park[19] (Theale, UK). A smaller engineering office is in Adelaide, Australia which was part of the Jedda acquisition.[20]
References
External links
- ↑ NET-TEL Computer Systems Ltd - News Шаблон:Webarchive
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