| Type | Subsidiary of Symantec Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Information security |
| Founded | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Gloucester, England, UK |
| Key people | Rowan Trollope Adrian Chamberlain Ben White Jos White |
| Products | Anti-virus, Anti-spam, Web filtering, Email archiving, Instant Messaging, Policy Based Encryption, Hosted Endpoint |
| Employees | 500 |
| Parent | Symantec |
| Website | www.symanteccloud.com |
Symantec.cloud, is a major provider of integrated messaging and web security services (hosted security), with over 19,000 clients ranging from small business to the Fortune 500 located in more than 86 countries and the United Kingdom Parliament.[1] MessageLabs provides a range of managed security services to protect, control, encrypt, and archive communications across Email, Web, and Instant Messaging which was added through an acquisition of Omnipod in 2005.[2] The company competes with similar services offered by Google, Microsoft, ScanSafe, Webroot, Websense, and McAfee.
The company maintains offices in 10 countries with regional headquarters in Gloucester, New York City and Sydney, in total employing over 500 staff. MessageLabs has alliance partnerships with over 800 organizations including IBM, Verizon, BT Group, Telstra, Unisys, CDW, and HP.
In 2006 MessageLabs ended a strategic partnership with ScanSafe, a competing security company, with the release of an in-house web security product titled Web Security Service Version 2. A resultant court judgment brought about by ScanSafe required MessageLabs notify all prospective clients that the Version 2 service is not based on ScanSafe technology.[3]
In 2007 the company split from Star Technology Services, the original founder of MessageLabs.[4]
On October 8, 2008 Symantec announced the acquisition of MessageLabs for a cash sum of £310 million plus US$154 million. The deal closed on November 14, 2008.[5] MessageLabs' products will be merged into the Symantec Protection Network.[6]