Kerio Technologies

Kerio Technologies, Inc. is a former technology company specializing in collaboration software and unified threat management for small and medium organizations. Founded in 1997, Kerio is headquartered in San Jose, California.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> In January 2017, GFI Software acquired Kerio.<ref name=":0" /> GFI Software is owned by Aurea SMB Solutions, which in turn is owned by ESW Capital Group.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

History

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Kerio Technologies

Kerio Technologies incorporated in 2001, but its first product WinRoute Pro entered the Internet security market in 1997,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> as it was owned and maintained by Tiny Software until February 1, 2002.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Tiny Software then transferred sales and development of its software to Kerio, where the developers continued to work on it under the Kerio brand.<ref>Template:Cite newsgroup</ref>

Kerio's main products (in the early 2000s) were Kerio Personal Firewall<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and Kerio WinRoute Firewall<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> and the company focused on collaboration software with Kerio MailServer.<ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> Kerio discontinued its Personal Firewall in late 2005, which was then acquired by Sunbelt Software.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Starting in 2010, Kerio MailServer was renamed to Kerio Connect<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Kerio WinRoute to Kerio Control.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Kerio introduced Kerio Operator, an IP PBX system, in 2011<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and Samepage, a file sharing and collaboration software, in 2013.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

In January 2017, Kerio was bought by GFI Software. Kerio Connect, Kerio Control, Kerio Operator and Kerio Cloud became GFI assets but Samepage was not part of the acquisition.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite web</ref>

Products and services

Kerio provides IT products and services mainly in security solutions<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> which are physical devices and virtual appliance that could run on virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere.

Kerio Control

Kerio Control is a network security solution that manages security services and perform as Unified Threat Management such as intrusion detection and prevention (IPS), gateway antivirus, VPN, web content, application filtering and endpoint security software.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Kerio Connect

Kerio Connect provides email service for small and mid-sized businesses. Some of its features include security features such as SSL encryption, S/MIME and antispam. Supporting for Microsoft Outlook, and mail services IMAP and POP.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

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