SoftScan has more than 150 employees and services more than 7,000 public and private companies in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany and the UK.

The independent testing organisation, West Coast Labs, has carried out new tests on the SoftScan Email Security Service. Once again, SoftScan has been certified Checkmark Premium, the highest level possible. SoftScan achieved a cumulative detection rate of 99%; the required rate for Checkmark Premium is 97%.

SoftScan is, for the third consecutive year, finalist at the SC Magazine Awards in the category Best Content Security.

2007

SoftScan has more than 100 employees and services more than 6,000 public and private companies in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Germany and the UK.

SoftScan is, for the second consecutive year, finalist at the SC Magazine Awards in the category Best Content Filtering.

SoftScan expects significant growth in the year 2007 and an expansion of the staff of employees to 140 employed by the end of the year.

2006

In April 2006 SoftScan wins the SC Magazine Awards in the categories Best Anti-Spam and Best Email Content Filtering.

In October SoftScan sends the first team of employees to Malaga in Spain, where they fulfil their daily job functions in a fully equipped work environment, however, in a somewhat sunnier climate. In the following weeks more teams are sent to Malaga, and the project is a great success for  employee motivation.

In November 2006 SoftScan is awarded the highest certification, Checkmark Premium Anti-Spam, for the company's anti-spam solution by the independent test organisation West Coast Labs.

During the year 2006 SoftScan's revenue increases more than 73 percent, while the numbers of employees and customers are doubled. Thus, SoftScan delivers the best result in the history of the company.

2005 

SoftScan expands to the UK and hires Phil Watts, a well-known face in the anti-virus industry, to establish a network of resellers. Since then, SoftScan has succeeded in building a network of more than 100 resellers in the UK.

A statement from SoftScan in December 2005 shows that, while the percentage of virus has declined steadily through the year 2005, the amount of spam has increased by 13 percent since 2004. This confirms the fact that the need for effective spam filters is now greater than ever before.

2004

In April 2004 SoftScan, with a market share of 19.2 percent, is pronounced as Denmark's leading supplier of spam filters in an IDC analysis about spam in Denmark.

In September, SoftScan is represented at the InfoSecurity fair in Stockholm, and SoftScan now moves fully into the Swedish market. By the end of the year 2004 SoftScan has 30 employees.

2003

SoftScan is established as an independent company by Thomas Holm Jensen, Diego d'Ambra, and Allan Thorvaldsen.

The Paranoid scanner is developed due to demand by SoftScan's customers. Paranoid makes it possible for SoftScan's customers to configure the SoftScan service so it fits with an individual company's email policy.

In December 2003 SoftScan opens an office with a Swedish sales team in Stockholm.

2002 

The IT consultancy company SoftCom Solutions conducts a survey on the market for virus and spam filters and, based on this survey, develops SoftScan as a new and innovative security solution to the existing customers of SoftCom Solutions. SoftScan differs from competing products by consisting of several antivirus products, that scan customers' email before it is sent to their mail servers.