- SurfControl
Infobox Company | company_name = SurfControl Plc
company_
company_type =Subsidiary
foundation =2000
location_city =Congleton, Cheshire
location_country =England
key_people =Patricia Sueltz , Chief Executive OfficerGreg Lock Non-Executive ChairmanSteve Purdham , Non-Executive DirectorSimon Wilson , Chief Financial OfficerGeorge Hayter , Senior Non-Executive DirectorJane Tozer , Non-Executive DirectorRene Schuster , Non-Executive Director
industry =Internet filtering Desktop security
products =Web Filter ,Email Filter ,Enterprise Threat Shield ,On-demand Web |SurfControl Plc., is a British software company based in
Congleton ,Cheshire , England. It producesInternet filtering and desktop security products. The company provideswebsite filtering,e-mail filtering and desktop security software for both enterprise and home users.Surfcontrol PLC was formed on 9 August 2000 on the renaming of JSB Software Technologies PLC (which was formed on 4 June 1981).
SurfControl was acquired by
Websense on 3 October 2007. Websense plans to continue the Surfcontrol business with a full staff until at least 2011. [ [http://investor.websense.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=284577 Press release 3 October 2007] ]Product range
The current product range is called the "Enterprise Protection Suite", and includes products for website and e-mail filtering and user security.
The key feature of the SurfControl filtering software is the ability to categorize websites and then allow or restrict users access by selecting categories.
Examples of the categories are:
* Adult/Sexually Explicit
* Advertisements & Popups
* Personals & Dating
* Proxies & TranslatorsSurfControl also license their URL database and categorization engine to other Companies, such as Check Point, for use in their products and appliances.
Product range
References
[http://www.companieshouse.gov.uk Companies House] Company Number 01566321
External links
* [http://www.surfcontrol.com/ SurfControl's Official Website]
* [http://mtas.surfcontrol.com/mtas/MTAS.asp Test a Site with SurfControl] - Allows a user to enter an address and see what category SurfControl places the site in.
* [http://www.cyberpatrol.com/ Cyberpatrol] - SurfControl's web filtering software for home users. Note: Newly-formed Internet safety software company CyberPatrol, LLC acquired the CyberPatrol parental control software product, from security vendor Websense, Inc. (NASDAQ: WBSN)on April 2, 2008 [http://www.cyberpatrol.com/_pressrelease.asp]
* [http://www.gartner.com/DisplayDocument?id=504629&ref=g_sitelink Gartner analysis]
* [http://www.dnsarrow.co.uk/ DNS Arrow] - Sole Distributor for SurfControl
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