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Purewire

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Industry
  
Information security

Founder
  
Paul Q. Judge

Number of employees
  
40

Website
  
www.purewire.com

Founded
  
2007

Key people
  
Steve Raber Michael Van Bruinisse Dr. Paul Q. Judge Mark Caldwell

Products
  
Anti-virus, Anti-spyware, Web filtering

Headquarters
  
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Type of business
  
Subsidiary of Barracuda Networks

Purewire, launched in November 2007, provides an in-the-cloud security service for web traffic. Its services block malware and secure the use of the Web. The Purewire management team includes former employees of CipherTrust, which was acquired by Secure Computing and IBM Internet Security Systems. The company competes with similar services offered by MessageLabs, ScanSafe, Webroot, Websense and Zscaler.

In January 2009, Purewire acquired Opinity, an online reputation management system.

On October 13, 2009, Barracuda Networks announced the acquisition of Purewire. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

References

Purewire Wikipedia