Optenet was a global security company that provides customers with a multi-tenant Secure Web Gateway and with an

antispam Various anti-spam techniques are used to prevent email spam (unsolicited bulk email). No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) as opposed to ...

and antiphishing software. Primarily for carriers, managed security service providers and large enterprises. In March 2015,

Allot Allot Ltd., formerly Allot Communications, is an Israeli high-tech company that develops telecommunications software. The company is headquartered in Hod Hasharon, Israel. History Allot was founded in 1996, by Michael Shurman and Yigal Jacoby. By ...

acquired Optenet.

History

Optenet was a private company that was a spin-off from the University of Navarra's Engineering Faculty and San Sebastian's Research Centre in San Sebastian, Spain. An internal study by the teacher in computer science Francisco Martín Abreu on

for Spanish language proved that there was not any efficient enough. Optenet was founded to fill this need. It provides customers with a multi-tenant secure web gateway and an e-mail infrastructure solution primarily for carriers, managed security service providers and large enterprises that want to create service offerings for their own clients. Its product Optenet WebSecure was recently awarded with five stars in SC Magazine's Web Content Management Group Test, defining it as a 'Solid' Web Security solution.. In March 2015,

acquired Optenet for $38 million.

Distinctions & achievements

Optenet has been named a "Cool Vendor" by

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for its innovative Multi-tenant technology in 2011, in Gartner's report, "Cool Vendors in Communications Service Provider Infrastructure 2011," authored by Akshay Sharma and Deborah Kish.Gartner, Inc. Cool Vendors in Communications Service Provider Infrastructure, 2011, Akshay K. Sharma, Deborah Kish, 20 Abril, 2011., page 6

References

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