VIPRE


VIPRE Email Security, a brand of j2 Global, develops cybersecurity products focused on endpoint and email security along with advanced threat intelligence applications. VIPRE is based in Clearwater, Florida.
In may 2019 VIPRE Security was merged with Fusemail, a brand that specializes in email filtering and email encryptions and changed name to VIPRE Email Security. After the merger Fusemail was renamed to VIPRE and the two brands became one.
Today VIPRE Email Security has operations in Clearwater, Florida, Washington D.C., Vancouver B.C., Keele, United Kingdom, Copenhagen, Denmark, Stockholm, Sweden and in Oslo, Norway.
The company was originally founded in 1994 as Sunbelt Software, which was acquired in 2010 by GFI Software. Before becoming VIPRE, they distributed products as ThreatTrack Security. As of 2017 it concentrates on its VIPRE suite and the company now uses that name. The VIPRE portfolio now encompasses endpoint security, with heritage from original Sunbelt Software anti-virus products, and email security, with heritage from the Fusemail and Electric Mail products that had previously been acquired by j2.
In 2017, VIPRE earned recognition from AV-Comparatives, AV-Test and Virus Bulletin.
In February 2018 it was acquired by j2 Global. It was recently featured in a PC World Magazine article.