Smoothwall

Smoothwall began in 2000 as an open-source firewall distribution in the United Kingdom and became something more specific: the web filtering used by a large share of British schools. Its business is built around the duty of care schools owe their pupils — filtering, monitoring and the safeguarding reports that go with them — rather than around enterprise perimeter security. Its products are the Smoothwall Firewall listed here, the Smoothwall Filter and its monitoring and safeguarding services, sold into education in the UK and the United States. It was acquired by Family Zone, an Australian company now trading as Qoria, in 2021. That market shapes what the product optimises for: content categorisation, age-appropriate policy and evidence for safeguarding teams. It is not entered into malware detection cycles, which measure something the product does not claim to do.

Country

🇬🇧United Kingdom

Headquarters

🇬🇧Leeds, United Kingdom

Year Established

2001

Employees

250Estimated by LLM

Customers

32K organisations (2026)Vendor states: Smoothwall (figure covers Smoothwall and its parent Qoria's businesses)

Users

6M users (2026)Estimated by LLM

Revenue

≈ $17.1M (2023)£13.2M as published · converted at an approximate rateSource: Wikipedia (citing Companies House full accounts to 30 June 2023)

Website

https://www.smoothwall.com

Status

Active