In November 2021, it was announced that HelpSystems, a global cybersecurity and automation software provider, would acquire ZixCorp for approximately $275 million. The acquisition was finalized in early 2022.
This move signaled a shift for ZixCorp from a public entity to a private component of a larger security ecosystem. Under the Fortra umbrella (the rebranded name for HelpSystems), Zix technologies continue to serve the email security market but are now bolstered by a wider array of automation and data protection tools. zixcorp
Today, "Zix" no longer exists as a standalone public company. The technology is now buried inside OpenText’s "Cloud Edition" security suite. The stock ticker is dead. The old portal logins redirect to OpenText’s login pages. In November 2021, it was announced that HelpSystems,
Dallas, Texas Industry: Cybersecurity & Cloud Computing Status: Acquired by HelpSystems (2022) Under the Fortra umbrella (the rebranded name for
Whatever Happened to ZixCorp? A Look Back at the Email Encryption Pioneer
They competed with giants like Cisco (IronPort) and McAfee, but Zix held its ground by being vendor agnostic . They didn't care what mail server you used—Exchange, GroupWise, or Lotus Notes (remember that?)—Zix worked.