please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . august 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message this article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information . please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject s importance use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance . august 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message netbox blue pty ltd. type privately held company industry network security founded 1999 headquarters brisbane queensland australia key people chairman john fison cto bernd jerzyna products 6s technology next generation firewall secure web gateway and proxy unified threat management endpoint management url web filtering load balancing and link failover identity management internet acceleration . number of employees 40 2012 website http cyberhound.com netbox blue pty ltd now cyberhound pty ltd as of november 2015 is an australian owned provider of internet and email security filtering and management solutions . the company currently has a staff of 40 and has clients in more than 20 countries around the world . netbox blue was founded in brisbane by john oxnam justin cooke and trent davis in 1999 . it is privately held company with its head office in spring hill queensland australia and branch offices in sydney melbourne and london . netbox blue provides products for internet compliance management and security . their products include applications that report inappropriate communications in social media using pattern matching technology . contents 1 staff 1.1 chairman 1.2 chief technology officer 2 solutions 2.1 social media management 2.2 solutions for schools 3 strategic alliances 3.1 ibm 3.2 canon its japan 3.3 eset 3.4 edgewave usa 4 see also 5 references 6 external links staff edit chairman edit john fison co founder of keltec it company became chairman of netbox blue in 2006 and is a director and major shareholder of the company . fison won several awards in the uk for growth citation needed and was an ernst and young young entrepreneur of the year winner in 2001 1 . he was subsequently selected as a judge for this program in the uk and more recently in australia . citation needed fison is one of the first uk chartered directors citation needed and is a fellow of the australian institute of company directors citation needed chief technology officer edit trent davis is the founder of netbox blue and is now the chief architect and head of development . citation needed in 2005 davis was a winner of the ernst & young young entrepreneur of the year award 2 and was recognized as one of fhm s most influential australians under the age of 30 . citation needed in 2005 trent davis was interviewed by the abc . 3 in january 2016 bloomberg acquired some ip and assets of netbox blue for bloomberg vault to monitor social media . trent davis now works for bloomberg . 4 since 2016 bernd jerzyna is now cto . solutions edit social media management edit netbox blue s safechat helps schools businesses government and not for profit organisations embrace social media . the award winning technology helps to identify the victims of cyberbullying . a recent netbox blue news item provides further information on cyberbullying in schools . safechat provides a means of ensuring applications like facebook windows messenger and twitter can be used positively flexibly and securely . safechat can be deployed on all netbox models and provides protection wherever laptops are connected to the internet via the bic agent . communications can be blocked appended reported or be sent for authorisation before posting . solutions for schools edit in 2008 netbox blue launched an internet and email filtering appliance specifically for the education sector . 5 the solution offers cyberbullying protection patented category web filtering spam filtering virus protection internet quota management and a firewall . the product is used by schools across australia and the world . 6 strategic alliances edit ibm edit in late 2006 netbox blue formed an alliance with the it corporation ibm and subsequently became one of the first ibm express advantage partners in australasia . 7 canon its japan edit in april 2008 global it vendor canon it solutions its japan signed a multimillion dollar master distribution agreement with netbox blue . 8 netbox blue agreed to provide its spamchecker appliance as it is known in japan to canon its japan s customers for email filtering and content control . the drop in appliance was the result of nine months of co development between netbox blue and canon japan and is specifically designed for the sme market in japan . eset edit netbox blue further expanded its security offerings with a strategic partnership with anti virus software provider eset . 9 the partnership offered customers eset nod32 antivirus as an option in netbox blue s line of utm and virtualised security products . as a result of the union small to medium sized businesses smbs also have access to netbox blue s integrated security and management suite and full line of localised security appliances through eset s network of partners . edgewave usa edit in june 2012 netbox blue has announced a licensing agreement with edgewave inc. the deal enables edgewave to provide its customers with netbox blue s award winning social media management technology safechat . more see also edit queensland portal companies portal list of companies of australia references edit ernst & young entrepreneur of the year finalists & winners 2001 pdf . ernst & young . 2001 . ernst & young entrepreneur of the year finalists & winners 2005 . ernst & young australia . 2005 . abc radio interview with trent davis . australian broadcasting corporation . 14 february 2005 . bloomberg acquires netbox blue to enhance its behavioral analytics and social media surveillance platform . bloomberg l.p. 12 january 2016 . crn news article netbox blue secures emails for education sector . crn . 14 october 2008 . sydney morning herald article new software fends off cyberbullies . sydney morning herald . 17 march 2009 . computerworld news article netbox blue becomes ibm express advantage partner . computerworld . 20 july 2007 . crn news article canon japan signs on as distributor for aussie security vendor . crn . 14 april 2008 . crn news article netbox blue amps up utm products with antivirus software . crn . 19 may 2008 . external links edit cyberhound homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title netbox blue & oldid 715011936 categories computer 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