From its Mississauga base, CurrentWare has built a suite of endpoint security, data loss prevention and web filtering tools that schools, hospitals, government agencies and small businesses can actually deploy, starting at $20 USD per user per month.
Most data does not leave an organization through a sophisticated intrusion. It leaves on a USB stick, in an upload to a personal cloud drive, or increasingly, pasted into an AI chatbot by an employee trying to work faster. These are not attacks in the conventional sense. They are the ordinary friction of daily work, and they are exactly what traditional perimeter security was never designed to catch.
CurrentWare Inc., a Canadian software company based in Mississauga, Ontario, has built its business on that insight. Founded in 2003, when Divyesh Lakhani and Jay Lakhani launched BrowseControl as the company’s first product, it now provides monitoring solutions for endpoint security, data loss prevention and web filtering to more than 100,000 professionals in 55 countries, and it is adopted by a wide array of government and private organizations including schools, hospitals, libraries and for-profit businesses.
Four modules, one platform
The CurrentWare Suite is built from complementary components that can be purchased together or individually, running through a single agent and a single web console.
AccessPatrol handles device control and data loss prevention, blocking USB drives, monitoring file transfers and enforcing DLP policy on every endpoint. BrowseControl delivers web filtering, blocking sites by URL and content category with granular policies customizable by user, department or organizational unit, and adding app blocking, port filtering and internet restriction scheduling.
BrowseReporter provides user activity monitoring and analytics, tracking web browsing and application usage through intuitive reports and dashboards, and giving organizations detailed evidence of web activity for enforcing acceptable use policies.
enPowerManager rounds out the suite by remotely managing PC power policies, configuring automated startup and shutdown times to conserve energy and reduce costs, and reporting on power states and logon and logoff time, useful both for green IT goals and for verifying that offsite employees are working expected hours.
Together, the modules power a range of solutions: preventing data theft and leakage to cloud services and portable storage, protecting endpoints against high-risk USB devices, websites and apps, defending sensitive data against negligent and malicious insiders, and enforcing acceptable use policies.
Built for organizations without a large IT team
What distinguishes CurrentWare in a crowded category is accessibility. The company positions its product against complex enterprise DLP platforms by being lightweight, affordable and easy to deploy, with individual modules starting at $6 USD per user per month and the full four-module suite from $20, billed annually, putting enterprise-grade capability within reach of organizations that could never absorb the overhead of a major platform. Every plan carries a baseline annual contract, and the 14-day trial is fully functional rather than a feature-limited tier.
Deployment flexibility reinforces that. Organizations in highly regulated environments such as police departments or government agencies can deploy on premises with everything stored on their own network. Others can choose cloud hosting for ease of management, or a hybrid model combining both. Remote users can be connected with minimal configuration.
The platform also fits alongside existing infrastructure rather than replacing it. Active Directory integration simplifies management and ensures policies adapt as roles change, and Microsoft Entra-ID synchronization now extends that to cloud identity, importing users and groups automatically so policies are assigned before anyone logs in. SAML and OIDC support single sign-on, while CEF output feeds activity data into existing SIEM platforms. Role-based access lets organizations implement policies by employee group or department, while least-privilege management reduces administrative rights while still enabling safe, rule-based actions.
Addressing the AI data leak problem
One of the most current problems CurrentWare addresses is generative AI. Its AI Usage Insights capability lets organizations see every AI tool their team uses, govern what is allowed, and stop sensitive data from leaking into tools like ChatGPT and Copilot without guesswork.
This is a genuinely new exposure that most small businesses have not yet addressed. Employees are pasting contracts, customer records and source code into AI assistants with good intentions and no policy guidance. Visibility is the necessary first step, and few tools at this price point offer it.
“Most organizations find out about their data being sacrificed to AI exposure the same way they found out about shadow IT, only after something has already left the building. You cannot govern what you cannot see, which is why we built AI Usage Insights so an organization can tell its people exactly what is being collected and why, and switch off what it does not need. Monitoring that survives scrutiny from a works council, a union or a privacy regulator is the only kind worth deploying.”
– Arun Sharma, Chief Executive Officer, CurrentWare Inc.
The company continues to develop rapidly. Recent releases have introduced AI usage dashboard, In-product AI assistance, on-demand screenshots and live screen monitoring, active versus idle timeline views, a login sessions dashboard, last-used apps and websites reporting, and DLP upgrades including the ability to whitelist human interface devices, automatically blocking any keyboard, mouse or similar device not explicitly approved, a control some cyber liability insurers now require.
Compliance evidence and measurable outcomes
CurrentWare maintains audit trails and enforced policies that map to HIPAA, NIST, ISO 27001, CMMC, GDPR, NERC CIP, Cyber Essentials and other frameworks, and supports specific use cases such as endpoint restriction to protect Controlled Unclassified Information and Federal Contract Information, and increasing the maturity of an ISO 27001 information security management system. For schools, CIPA-compliant web filtering helps qualify for E-Rate funding while keeping students safe online.
The company also frames its value in operational terms leaders can measure, pointing to surfaced unused licences and SaaS sprawl helping customers right-size IT budgets, and reporting reductions in software spend of up to 48 per cent and productivity gains of up to 81 per cent. Detailed logs provide evidence supporting compliance, and real-time notifications keep security teams informed of potential threats, with user behaviour analytics helping detect anomalies that may indicate insider risk.
A dedicated channel for service providers
CurrentWare operates an MSP program allowing managed service providers to oversee productivity, filtering and data protection for every client from a single console, and to set up security and productivity controls quickly without a large IT team. It is a sensible route to the small business market, extending the product through partners who already hold those relationships.
Visibility every organization should have
CurrentWare is both a supplier to organizations worldwide and an example of Canadian software succeeding globally. Its product answers a question every leadership team should be asking: do we actually know where our data goes? And, it does so at a price and complexity level a small team can manage.
That combination of practical capability, transparent pricing, flexible deployment and Canadian engineering has earned it a place across schools, hospitals, libraries, government agencies and private businesses alike. In a category dominated by platforms that require a dedicated team to operate, being genuinely deployable is a meaningful differentiator.
Source : CurrentWare Inc.
