[3] Its co-founder and CEO for ten years, George Shih, developed many of the technologies used in 8e6 Internet filtering products.
[4] Originally, in an effort to provide "pornography-free Internet use for children", the company offered filtering software for computers used in education environments.
[6] The company's Internet filtering, reporting and monitoring appliances were named a "Best Buy" by SC Magazine in 2007 and 2008.
[7] In November 2008, 8e6 Technologies and Marshal Limited, a provider of email and Web security products, merged and became Marshal8e6.
[10] In March 2009, Marshal8e6 acquired Avinti,[11] along with its behavior-based malware technology[12] for detecting blended threats that occur through email.