Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) provides proven messaging and Web security technology to more than 130 security companies and service providers including 3Com, Check Point, F-Secure, Openwave, Panda Security, Mirapoint, Sendmail, Axway, and WatchGuard, for integration into their solutions. Commtouch’s GlobalView™ and patented Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) technologies are founded on a unique cloud-based approach, and protect effectively in all languages and formats.
Commtouch technology automatically analyzes billions of Internet transactions in real-time in its global data centers to identify new threats as they are initiated, protecting email infrastructures and enabling safe, compliant browsing. The company’s expertise in building efficient, massive-scale security services has resulted in mitigating Internet threats for thousands of organizations and hundreds of millions of users in 190 countries.
The key Commtouch services - Anti-Spam, Zero-Hour™ Virus Outbreak Protection, GlobalView™ Mail Reputation Services, GlobalView™ Zombie Intelligence and GlobalView™ URL Filtering– all provide information for each other in a comprehensive, self-learning feedback loop that learns locally as well as globally. Relying on Commtouch enables licensing partners to focus on their own areas of expertise, secure in the knowledge that Commtouch is always well ahead of the latest email and Web threats.
Commtouch was founded in 1991, is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, with a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif.
Based on RPD and other proprietary technologies, the Commtouch Detection Center analyzes the distribution patterns of billions of Web transactions per day. Based on these patterns, Commtouch identifies new malware outbreaks as soon as they are introduced into the Internet. The result is that users are protected from emerging malware in real-time, all the time. For example, viruses are detected and blocked within minutes, hours before signatures are released.
- Ideal as a core technology or additional layer
- Real-time protection from new outbreaks
- Highest spam capture rates
- Superior accuracy with almost no false positives
- Global coverage - any language, any location
- Provides immediate protection from rapid-fire new virus outbreaks
- Blocks suspect messages hours ahead of competing technologies with unique signature-less technology
- Highly scalable and easy to deploy
- Blocks the majority of unwanted mail at the perimeter
- Optimizes traffic flow so legitimate traffic gains optimal access
- Saves bandwidth, enhancing performance
- Enables service providers to block outbound spam, phishing and malware
- Identifies the sender, getting the source of the problem rather than just the symptoms
- Saves service providers from being blacklisted
- Protects networks and users from malicious and compromised Web sites
- Supports parental and HR compliance and employee productivity by preventing browsing to restricted sites
- Identifies sites that consume an organization’s bandwidth (i.e. movies, music)
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