Tiny Software
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Tiny Software, a Silicon Valley
-based software company, founded in 1997, was acquired by Computer Associates in 2005. The company developed and marketed Tiny WinRoute, a popular personal firewall
, later followed by Tiny Personal Firewall, which was based on it.
In February, 2002 the rights to the software was transferred to Kerio Technologies
(formed in 2001) , where the original team who developed the software under the Tiny brand continued to develop it as Kerio.
Tiny Software continued to develop a software firewall
solution called Tiny Firewall v6; however, this product was not based on the original Tiny Personal Firewall. On December 17, 2004 it was announced that it would be released as Tiny Personal Firewall 2005 .
On June 27, 2005 Tiny Software was acquired by Computer Associates ; since then their CA Personal Firewall was promoted as being "based on Tiny Software technology" .
Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is a term which refers to the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California in the United States. The region is home to many of the world's largest technology corporations...
-based software company, founded in 1997, was acquired by Computer Associates in 2005. The company developed and marketed Tiny WinRoute, a popular personal firewall
Personal firewall
A personal firewall is an application which controls network traffic to and from a computer, permitting or denying communications based on a security policy. Typically it works as an application layer firewall....
, later followed by Tiny Personal Firewall, which was based on it.
Tiny Personal Firewall
The first version of Tiny Personal Firewall was released on 26 July 2000. The popularity of Tiny Personal Firewall stemmed from the fact that it was fairly easy to operate, had a very small hard-disk and memory footprint, and was free for home and personal use. It was also superior to many similar products in that it monitored both outgoing and incoming connections (inexplicably, many competing personal firewalls watched only incoming traffic).In February, 2002 the rights to the software was transferred to Kerio Technologies
Kerio Technologies
Kerio Technologies, Inc. is a software company in San Jose, CA that offers security, messaging, voice and collaboration products for small and medium businesses...
(formed in 2001) , where the original team who developed the software under the Tiny brand continued to develop it as Kerio.
Tiny Software continued to develop a software firewall
Firewall (computing)
A firewall is a device or set of devices designed to permit or deny network transmissions based upon a set of rules and is frequently used to protect networks from unauthorized access while permitting legitimate communications to pass....
solution called Tiny Firewall v6; however, this product was not based on the original Tiny Personal Firewall. On December 17, 2004 it was announced that it would be released as Tiny Personal Firewall 2005 .
On June 27, 2005 Tiny Software was acquired by Computer Associates ; since then their CA Personal Firewall was promoted as being "based on Tiny Software technology" .