The CyberPatrol picture is now becoming clearer. As I blogged about earlier, Websense sold off CyberPatrol after acquiring SurfControl to a new company formed by former PestPatrol executives. The CyberPatrol name, like Net Nanny, has consumer brand equity that was too good to let die. But I’m sure the new Cyber Patrol needed some new filtering technology, since Websense probably didn’t sell them much except the brand and the software to deliver filtering.
Newly Formed CyberPatrol LLC Acquires Emerald Technology, Inc.
Dramatically Increased Parental Controls Filtering Capabilities, Web Filtering products now available for SMBs and Networked Environments
Enola, PA……June 12, 2008………Newly formed CyberPatrol LLC today announced that it has acquired Emerald Technology, Inc. Emerald Technology’s proprietary filtering technology will be used in CyberPatrol’s Parental Controls software. Called SiteCAT, the core technology and unique content filtering engine will enhance the blocking and filtering capabilities of the existing CyberPatrol Parental Controls product. CyberPatrol will continue to sell and support Emerald Technology’s current products under the CyberPatrol brand. Jason Short PhD, founder and President of Emerald Technology and Michael McDonald, software engineer have joined the CyberPatrol LLC organization. Dr. Short heads up the research department as vice‐president of research
Sounds like they’ve got a big database they’ll deliver primarily “over the cloud” to more than just consumers:
Emerald’s filtering technology continuously crawls and scans both new and existing domains. By continuously scanning the internet, new domains are detected, classified and immediately added to a database that is used to power CyberPatrol Parental Controls. This proprietary database contains information on 22 million domains that represent over 200 million web pages. This data has been segregated into 43 different categories. The database contains both known safe sites as well as sites to be blocked. The entire Internet is crawled every 45‐ 60 days and updates are immediately made and available to CyberPatrol customers.
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