St. Bernard Software Acquires Red Condor

By Stephanie Jordan
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On the heels of last week’s news that Red Condor had scored the highest in an independent third-party test, comes an announcement from St. Bernard Software, Inc. that it has acquired the company. St. Bernard, a provider of Web security appliances targeting the SME market, says the acquisition of Red Condor’s managed security solutions is “a natural extension” of its product and business strategy.

“This acquisition milestone is a truly exciting time for both St. Bernard and Red Condor, as it creates great opportunities for growth with our shared hybrid security vision,” says Lou Ryan, president and CEO at St. Bernard. “The strategic match we have found in Red Condor establishes greater breadth and depth in our hosted, hybrid and on-premises options, and increases the overall value to our customers and partners.”  

Recently, Red Condor’s hosted and hybrid email spam filtering solutions outperformed competitive spam filters in an independent test of email filter accuracy conducted by Miercom.  According to Rob Smithers, CEO of Miercom, “Red Condor had the lowest misclassification rate of all appliance and SaaS solutions tested, and its hybrid solution affords a comprehensive approach to filtering, blocking and classifying emails.” He went on to state that Red Condor has one of the best email security solutions on the market.

Test criteria in the Miercom evaluation included spam block rates, false-positive and false-negative counts and misclassification rates – number of false negatives (missed spam) combined with the number of false positives (legitimate messages incorrectly quarantined). The results gave Red Condor the highest block rate, zero false-positives and only one misclassified message for every 1,970 messages received during the one-week test.

The acquisition announcement states that the Web security market is expected to grow to $2.3 billion (USD) by 2012, and that the protection of leading applications, such as email and messaging, remains a primary concern across global enterprises of all sizes. Red Condor, founded six years ago, brings St. Bernard over 1,900 new customers, as well as its ISP and MSP partner network.

Published August 5, 2010