ESafe Protect (eSafe, formerly known as EliaShim Antivirus) is a range of
software security products developed by EliaShim Limited, based in
Haifa
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, Israel.
The distribution of the products is managed by eSafe Technologies Inc, located in
Seattle
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,
United States
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.
History
EliaShim was acquired by
Aladdin Knowledge Systems
Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. was a company that produced software for digital rights management and Internet security. The company was acquired by Safenet Inc, in 2009. Its corporate headquarters are located in Belcamp, Maryland, Belcamp, Maryl ...
in December 1998. The distribution of the consumer desktop version, eSafe Protect, was managed by Aladdin Knowledge Systems until its discontinuation in 2002.
In the following years, the eSafe brand had transformed into a
gateway-based content security product, which
Aladdin Knowledge Systems
Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. was a company that produced software for digital rights management and Internet security. The company was acquired by Safenet Inc, in 2009. Its corporate headquarters are located in Belcamp, Maryland, Belcamp, Maryl ...
sold as an integrated
security appliance A security appliance is any form of server appliance that is designed to protect computer networks from unwanted traffic.
Types of security appliances
* Active devices block unwanted traffic. Examples of such devices are firewalls, anti virus sca ...
.
In March 2009,
Aladdin Knowledge Systems
Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. was a company that produced software for digital rights management and Internet security. The company was acquired by Safenet Inc, in 2009. Its corporate headquarters are located in Belcamp, Maryland, Belcamp, Maryl ...
merged eSafe Protect with
SafeNet Inc., which led to the evolution of eSafe into the SafeNet eSafe Content Security product line.
See also
*
SafeNet
SafeNet, Inc. was an information security company based in Belcamp, Maryland, United States, which was acquired in August 2014 by the French security company Gemalto. Gemalto was, in turn, acquired by Thales Group in 2019. The former SafeNet' ...
*
Surfshark Antivirus
References
Sources
SafeNet Website
Antivirus software
Information technology companies of Israel
Computer security companies
Computer security software companies
Companies based in Haifa
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Software companies established in 1998