SurfControl

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{{Infobox company

| name = SurfControl Plc (formerly JSB Software Technologies PLC)

| logo =

| type = Subsidiary

| foundation = 1997

| location_city = Congleton, Cheshire

| location_country = England

| key_people = Founders Steve Purdham and Rob Barrow, Patricia Sueltz, Chief Executive Officer
Greg Lock Non-Executive Chairman
Syed Imran, Non-Executive Director
Simon Wilson, Chief Financial Officer
George Hayter, Senior Non-Executive Director
Jane Tozer, Non-Executive Director
Rene Schuster, Non-Executive Director

| industry = Internet filtering
Desktop security

| products = Web filter, Email Filter, Enterprise Threat Shield, On-demand Web

|}}

SurfControl Plc., was a British software company based in Cheshire, England. The company provided website filtering, e-mail filtering and desktop security software for both enterprise and home users.

SurfControl was acquired by Websense on 3 October 2007. The purchase price was approximately £204 million ($416 million), including deferred compensation and stock option expense. Websense plans to continue the SurfControl business until at least 2011.[http://investor.websense.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=284577 Press release 3 October 2007] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718015125/http://investor.websense.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=284577 |date=18 July 2011 }} On 2 April 2008, Websense sold CyberPatrol, the SurfControl parental control software product, to newly formed Internet safety software company CyberPatrol, LLC.[http://www.cyberpatrol.com/news/CyberPatrolAcquisition.pdf Press release 2 April 2008] According to Websense's quarterly report, they received $1.4 million in cash from the sale of CyberPatrol assets.{{cite web|url=http://investor.websense.com/secfiling.cfm?filingID=1104659-08-51286 |title=Websense, Inc. - Quarterly Report |publisher=Investor.websense.com |date=2008-08-08 |accessdate=2013-07-11}}

Prior to being acquired by Websense, SurfControl acquired a British cloud computing company called BlackSpider Technologies Limited in July 2006 for £19.5m in cash.{{cite web

|url = https://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/13/surfcontrol_blackspider_buy/

|title = SurfControl Snaps Up Blackspider

|accessdate = 22 August 2010

|author = John Leyden

|work = The Register

|date = 23 July 2006}}