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Commtouch^® and MXSweep today announced that MXSweep has further enhanced its email security as a service (SaaS) platform with the addition of Commtouch’s GlobalView™ Mail Reputation Service and Outbound Spam Protection solutions.

Commtouch^® (NASDAQ: CTCH) announced the upcoming release of its connector for Microsoft Exchange Server, allowing operators of hosted and managed Microsoft Exchange environments to easily reduce costs and differentiate their email offerings. This latest innovation will allow these operators to enjoy the same ease of integration that is already experienced by service providers that have deployed Commtouch on their open source infrastructure.

While the move to domain-based standards is just getting underway, some in the industry are looking beyond this standard to additional measures. Up to this point, only the reputation of a sender's IP address has been a focus, according to Amir Lev, CTO, president, and co-founder of Commtouch.

Spammers continue to be cutting-edge marketers, this time taking advantage of the reputations of global brands, such as UPS, DHL and Facebook, to prompt opening of emails. These are the findings of the latest Commtouch Internet Threats Trend report.

CommTouch recently released its Internet Threats Trend Report for Q4 2009, based on the analysis of over two billion email messages and Internet transactions seen daily in the company’s cloud-based global detection centers.

Spammers take advantage of the reputations of global brands such as UPS, DHL and Facebook to prompt opening of emails, according to a new report by Commtouch.