The story
Ericom Software was founded in 1993 by Eran Heyman, who was CEO until March 2015 and Executive Chairman until April 2023. Ericom initially developed Terminal emulation (IBM 5250, IBM 3270) products; later expanding to offer software for server-based computing, VDI, Web-to-Host Connectivity and secure browsing.
In November 2007, Ericom delivered the first Terminal Services client to be certified by Microsoft for Windows Server 2008.
Ericom AccessNow is a line of HTML5 Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) clients that provide browser-based access to Windows applications and desktops running on Microsoft RDS/terminal services and VDI platforms from devices supporting an HTML5-compliant browser, including Google Chromebooks.
Ericom Connect is a remote desktop and application virtualization tool. Ericom Shield is a remote browser isolation solution that protects data security.
In January 2019, David Canellos joined the company as president and CEO. He said in an interview that he planned to focus on integrations with other technologies and vendors. In April 2019, the company announced that Nick Kael had joined as Chief Technology Officer. Kael is a cyber-security veteran and has held senior leadership positions at Zscaler, Symantec, BT, and Qwest. In February 2020, the company announced that John Peterson had joined as Chief Product Officer. Dr. Chase Cunningham joined Ericom from Forrester Research as Chief Strategy Officer in January 2021.
In April 2023, Cradlepoint, part of Ericsson, announced that it acquired Ericom Software to solidify their Secure Access Service Edge and zero trust offerings for hybrid 5G and wireline environments.
From Wikipedia’s article on Ericom Software, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3