ScanSafe 一个来自英国的Web安全服务公司

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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.