Webroot Software

Webroot's distinguishing idea was to move the work off the machine. Rather than shipping signature files to every endpoint, it kept the classification in the cloud and left a very small agent behind — which made it notably light on system resources and made its behaviour in comparative tests unlike that of conventional scanners, since much of what it does depends on a live connection. It is no longer independent. Carbonite bought Webroot in 2019, and OpenText bought Carbonite later the same year; the products are now sold as Webroot by OpenText. The consumer range is Webroot Essentials, Webroot Premium and Webroot Total Protection, with Family editions of the upper tiers, plus a Chromebook edition, an antivirus aimed at PC gamers, a PC optimizer and a VPN. Organisations buy Webroot Business Endpoint Protection and the DNS and security-awareness services beside it, sold largely through managed service providers.

Country

🇺🇸United States

Headquarters

🇺🇸Broomfield, United States

Year Established

1997

Employees

500

Customers

300K business customers (2018)Source: Web search — globalbankingandfinance.com

Users

206M devices protected (2026)Vendor states: Vendor website

Revenue

$28.2M (2025)Estimated by LLM

Website

https://www.webroot.com/

Status

Acquired

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