founded 2004 1 headquarters london united kingdom key people eldar tuvey roy tuvey john edwards jonathan elstein jim walker stephen dane 2 products anti virus anti spyware web filtering messaging number of employees 150 parent cisco website www.scansafe.com scansafe was a privately held company backed by investors benchmark capital and scale venture partners 3 until its 2009 acquisition by cisco systems . the company provided web based software as a service saas to organizations . history edit co founded in 1999 by brothers eldar and roy tuvey 4 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 blue coat systems messagelabs purewire webroot websense and zscaler . 5 scansafe has offices in london england and san francisco california and maintains alliance partnerships with google at & t sprint kaspersky telus nec orange business services integralis softscan topnordic viatel ancoris and fvc . 6 7 8 messagelabs a major 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 brought about by scansafe which required messagelabs to notify all prospective clients that the version 2 service is not based on scansafe technology . 9 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 . 10 alexa regularly ranks indiatimes as one of the top 250 most visited websites . 11 in january 2009 scansafe reported a malware infection on the official website of paris hilton . 12 in october 2009 scansafe discontinued scandoo a free service that provided advance warning for security risks and offensive content in search engine results . 13 in october 2009 cisco announced the acquisition of scansafe for approximately us 183 million . scansafe was integrated into the cisco security business unit . 14 the deal was completed december 2009 . 15 recognition edit in 2007 scansafe was named one of the top 100 technology startups in the world by red herring 16 awarded best software as a service saas solution by the codie awards 17 and won best content security solution for 3 consecutive years as voted by sc magazine readers . 18 19 in september 2008 scansafe were awarded cnet security product or service of the year for their anywhere product a software based filtering solution for mobile users . 20 a 2008 report by gartner identified scansafe as a challenger in the secure web gateway swg market having moved from the visionary position previously occupied in 2007 . gartner acknowledged strong partner relationships and the ability to offer an excellent solution for companies with a high percentage of mobile workers and or remote offices but noted the service can be expensive and that report archiving is limited . 21 in october 2009 idc reported that scansafe holds over 30 % of the worldwide saas web security market more than any other vendor in the sector . 22 references edit scansafe about . alison r.g. van diggelen . retrieved 2009 010 27 . check date values in access date help management team . scansafe . retrieved 2008 10 13 . scansafe investors . scansafe . archived from the original on 2008 04 19 . retrieved 2008 05 02 . interview eldar tuvey . sc magazine . archived from the original on 2008 03 02 . retrieved 2008 05 03 . scansafe s business brotherhood . alison r.g. van diggelen . archived from the original on 2008 03 03 . retrieved 2008 05 04 . scansafe alliance partners . scansafe . archived from the original on 2008 04 10 . retrieved 2008 04 30 . sprint introduces sprint secure web protection . scansafe . retrieved 2014 08 26 . 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retrieved 2008 04 30 . the sc magazine awards europe 2009 winners announced . scmagazineuk.com . retrieved 2009 04 28 . cnet networks uk award winner scansafe . cnet networks uk . retrieved 2008 09 25 . magic quadrant for secure web gateway 2008 . gartner . retrieved 2008 11 16 . scansafe named worldwide leader of saas web security market by leading analyst firm . reuters . 2009 10 14 . retrieved 2009 10 14 . further reading edit moe michael 2006 finding the next starbucks how to identify and invest in the hot stocks of tomorrow usa penguin group isbn 978 1 59184 134 0 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title scansafe & oldid 699294022 categories companies established in 2004hidden categories cs1 errors dates navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store 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