VIPRE

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VIPRE Security Group Inc.
Type Private Company
Industry Computer security & Network Security
Founded2013
Headquarters Seattle,
United States
Number of locations
Clearwater, Copenhagen, Dublin, Stoke-on-Trent, Stockholm
Key people
  • Vivek Kapil, President
  • Usman Choudhary, CPO
  • Wayne MacLaurin, CTO
Products
  • Email Security
  • Email Encryption
  • Endpoint Security
  • Security Awareness Training
  • SafeSend
BrandsVIPRE, SendInc, LOGIVA, Inspired eLearning, StrongVPN, livedrive, SugarSync
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$678.5 million(2020) [1]
Number of employees
~500 (December 2020) [1]
Parent Ziff Davis
Website www.vipre.com

VIPRE Security Group, (also known as VIPRE or VIPRE Security) a brand of Ziff Davis, is a privately held cybersecurity company headquartered in New York. [2]

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VIPRE develops cybersecurity products focused on endpoint and email security along with advanced threat intelligence applications. VIPRE is based globally with operations in Clearwater, Florida, Washington D.C., Vancouver B.C., Keele, United Kingdom, Dublin, Ireland, Copenhagen, Denmark, Stockholm, Sweden, Amsterdam, Netherlands and in Oslo, Norway. [3]

Corporate history

The company was originally founded in 1994 as Sunbelt Software, [4] which was acquired in 2010 by GFI Software. [5]

In 2013 Sunbelt Software was spun off and renamed to ThreatTrack Security. [6]

In 2017 they were concentrating on their VIPRE suite [7] and the company now uses that name. The VIPRE portfolio now encompasses endpoint security, with heritage from original Sunbelt Software anti-virus products, email security, with heritage from the UK company Fusemail, Comendo, StaySecure, WeCloud, iCritical and ElectricMail products that had previously been acquired by j2, and security awareness training via the acquisition of Inspired e-Learning.

VIPRE was featured in a PC World Magazine article. [8]

In February 2018 it was acquired by j2 Global. [9]

Acquisitions

Announcement dateCompanyBusinessDeal sizeLocationReferences
January 11, 2021LOGIVA A/SEmail EncryptionUndisclosed Aarhus, Denmark [10]
January 11, 2021Inspired eLearning Inc.Security Awareness TrainingUndisclosed Austin, TX [11]
May 10, 2019SafeSend ASEmail DLPUndisclosed Oslo, Norway [12]

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