founded 1999 1999 headquarters gloucester england products email web and instant messaging security website www.messagelabs.com messagelabs was a company founded in 1999 by brothers ben and jos white and partners 1 providing cloud based software as a service integrating messaging and web security services . messagelabs provided a range of managed security services to protect control encrypt and archive communications across email web and instant messaging . on october 8 2008 symantec announced the acquisition of messagelabs for a cash sum of 310 million plus us 154 million . the deal closed on november 14 2008 . 2 the white brothers along with messagelabs financial director stephen chandler invested a share of their proceeds in establishing notion capital . history edit in 2005 messagelabs acquired omnipod . 3 in 2006 messagelabs ended a strategic partnership with scansafe a competing security company with the release of an in house web security product titled web security service version 2 . a resultant court judgment brought about by scansafe required messagelabs to notify all prospective clients that the version 2 service is not based on scansafe technology . 4 in 2007 the company split from star technology services the original founder of messagelabs . 5 references edit doidge fleur 2008 10 28 . messagelabs brothers get 100m notion . crn . retrieved 23 november 2013 . subscription required symantec completes acquisition of messagelabs . symantec . messagelabs to buy omnipod for im security . cnet . scansafe forces messagelabs to clarify sales pitches . out law . mbo splits star and messagelabs . the register . v t e symantec corporation people gary hendrix founder gordon eubanks 1990s ceo geraldine laybourne chairman greg clark ceo current products backup exec disaster recovery advisor enterprise vault netbackup norton connectsafe norton family norton insight norton security norton liveupdate norton safe web norton utilities pcanywhere sonar symantec endpoint protection veritas file system veritas storage foundation veritas volume manager discontinued drive image ghost goback grandview more norton 360 norton antibot norton antivirus norton cleansweep norton commander norton internet security norton pc checkup norton personal firewall norton systemworks num note it partitionmagic q & a sqz sum symantec c think c think reference time line visual caf winfax acquisitions and mergers 4frontsecurity stake altiris binary research bindview blue coat systems breakthrough software brightmail central point software company i delrina dynamic microprocessor associates fast track fifth generation systems leonard development group liric associates messagelabs mountain wave nexland on technology peter norton computing platform logic powerquest quarterdeck quest development recourse technologies relicore riptech securityfocus slr systems sygate technologies turntide urlabs veritas software whitewater group wholesecurity zortech category commons retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title messagelabs & oldid 618834802 categories companies established in 1999symantec acquisitionscompanies based in gloucesterhidden categories pages containing links to subscription only content 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 interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 28 july 2014 at 16 02 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view