High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ScanSafe was a privately held company backed by investors Benchmark Capital and Scale Venture Partners, it was a provider of Web security-as-a-service (SaaS) for organizations. Co-founded in 1999 by brothers Eldar and Roy Tuvey, its services block malware and secure the use of the Web and messaging. Noted as being the first to successfully deliver a Secure Web Gateway service, the company competes with similar services offered by Blue Coat Systems, MessageLabs, Purewire, Webroot, Websense and Zscaler.