Sunnyvale, Calif., and Broomfield, CO – November 18, 2008 – ColdSpark and Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced that ColdSpark will be offering Commtouch messaging security services based on Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) and GlobalView™ Reputation technology with its SparkEngine™ Mail Transfer Platform.
“With the rising flow of unwanted and malicious mail achieving new heights, we decided it was time to offer a superior messaging security solution that blocks spam and malware at the network perimeter, and has a track record in defending against zero-hour threats,” said Scott Brown, chief technology officer of ColdSpark. “We decided on Commtouch technology because of its ease of use and superior detection over traditional signature based commodity technologies. Commtouch messaging security technology is a natural fit for our SparkEngine Mail Transport Platform portfolio for our largest enterprise customers.”
SparkEngine is a high performance message transfer platform, designed specifically with the needs of large enterprises in mind. Its customers include four of the top five large investment banks, America’s top retail brokerage house, and 2 of America’s top retail banks.
ColdSpark is integrating the following Commtouch offerings into their platform:
“Large enterprises often bear the brunt of the growing amounts of unwanted mail, which can overwhelm their mail infrastructure and expose them to unnecessary threats,” said Avner Amram, Commtouch’s executive vice president and general manager, Americas. “We are pleased to be working with ColdSpark, providing best-of-breed messaging security technology for its enterprise customer base.”
About ColdSpark
ColdSpark is the leading provider of enterprise email infrastructure solutions and platforms. ColdSpark helps the world’s most demanding companies increase the power of their email to drive revenue, deepen customer relationships and improve business efficiency, while ensuring security, compliance and performance. ColdSpark replaces widely used legacy technology with solutions based on the patent-pending SparkEngine™ Mail Transport Platform, a powerful new software platform for delivering, processing and managing email. Founded in 2001 by email technology veterans, ColdSpark’s customers include many of the world’s largest financial institutions and global 2000 enterprises.
About Commtouch
Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) is the source of proven messaging and web security technology for scores of security companies and service providers, founded on a unique datacenter-based approach. Commtouch’s expertise in building efficient, massive-scale security services has resulted in its patented technology being used to mitigate Internet threats for thousands of organizations and hundreds of millions of users in over 100 countries. Commtouch’s Global Detection Centers automatically analyze billions of transactions in real-time to identify new spam, malware and zombie outbreaks as they are initiated. Commtouch’s unmatched suite of security offerings – anti-spam, virus detection, reputation and zombie intelligence services – work together in a comprehensive feedback loop. Commtouch was founded in 1991, is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, and has a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information and real-time statistics and trends, see: http://www.commtouch.com and the Commtouch Café blog at http://blog.commtouch.com/cafe.
Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD, Zero-Hour and GlobalView are trademarks, and Commtouch is a registered trademark, of Commtouch Software Ltd. U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 is owned by Commtouch.
Commtouch Contact:
Rebecca Steinberg Herson
US: 650-864-2112
Int'l: +972-9-863-6877
rebeccah@commtouch.com
ColdSpark Contact:
Tracy Herman
cs-sales@coldspark.com
1-866-902-2505
303-962-7800
