[2] Founded and headquartered in Joensuu, Finland, the company operates from offices across Europe, North America, Middle East, Asia, and Australasia.
In 2007 when Blancco was approved and included in the NATO Information Assurance Product Catalogue (NIAPC).
[citation needed] The company expanded its product line in 2008 with the introduction of the Blancco 4.5 client series for added server support, and the Data Center Edition, which enables safe reuse of the hard drives in mass storage environments for clients such as Sun, HP and EMC that need deep data expunging.
The company also acquired DBAN in 2012 and received Common Criteria certification in that same year.
[5] Blancco's data wipe products scale from a single, reusable PC erasure tool to software for erasure requirements in mass storage environments and data centers.