Sunnyvale, Calif. and Lyon, France – July 2, 2007 – Arkoon Network Security and Commtouch (NASDAQ: CTCH), announced today that they have entered into an agreement to bring Commtouch anti-spam protection to Arkoon’s FAST360® Unified Threat Management customers in France and throughout Europe.
“As global spam levels reach over 85%, spam has become a serious problem for medium to large corporations,” explained David Dupr?, Marketing Manager at Arkoon. “Our R&D department was given a clear directive to find the very best anti-spam solution. The result was a resounding vote for Commtouch.”
One of Europe’s leading network security innovators, Arkoon will offer Commtouch anti-spam technology to both its broad customer base and its new business. Commtouch RPD engine is being integrated into every series of the Arkoon FAST360® product line to ensure that all customers, from SMB to large corporations, can benefit from unrivaled spam detection and blocking rates. The new version with integrated RPD technology is expected to be launched in September 2007. Arkoon's Dupr? added, “Commtouch has a long standing reputation of detecting and blocking all spam, no matter what new types of spam are unleashed.”
“Commtouch is proud to be offered as part of the leading UTM appliance in France,” said Ronni Zehavi, Commtouch VP of Business Development. “Arkoon insists on strong protection to keep their customers safe from threats, without compromising network performance. Commtouch detects and blocks all types of spam in real-time, keeping networks and inboxes clean.”
Founded in 2000 and headquartered in Lyon, France, in the heart of Europe, Arkoon Network Security is one of Europe's leading innovators in enterprise Information, Communications, and Infrastructure security solutions. With a focus on the critical security requirements of large corporations, public entities, and medium sized businesses throughout Europe and the Middle East, Arkoon "business-centric" solutions are designed to deliver enterprise-wide security in line with business objectives, protecting information systems and end-users against today's threats and those yet to appear. With over 5500 UTM appliances and over 300,000 Security BOX® licenses installed worldwide, Arkoon has a record of success in delivering solutions that answer our customers' needs. As the IT environment continues to evolve, as new threats continue to appear, Arkoon continues to invest a substantial portion of revenues in R&D to maintain the innovative edge which is the guarantee of ongoing customer satisfaction. For more information, see: www.arkoon.net
Commtouch Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CTCH) is dedicated to protecting and preserving the integrity of the world's most important communications tool -- e-mail. Commtouch has over 16 years of experience developing messaging software and is a global developer and provider of proprietary anti-spam, Zero-Hour virus protection and Reputation Service solutions. Using core technologies including RPD (Recurrent Pattern Detection™), the Commtouch Detection Center analyzes billions of email messages per week to identify new spam and malware outbreaks within minutes of their introduction into the Internet. Integrated by scores of OEM partners, Commtouch technology protects thousands of organizations, with hundreds of millions of users in over 100 countries. Commtouch is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, and has a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, see: http://www.commtouch.com. The site includes the Commtouch online lab detailing spam statistics and charts.
Contacts:
Arkoon
David Dupre
DDUPRE@arkoon.net
Int’l: +33 (0)4 72 53 01 01
Commtouch
Rebecca Steinberg Herson
rebeccah@commtouch.com
US: 650-864-2112
Int'l: +972-9-863-6877
