Mountain View, Calif. – January 31, 2007 – Commtouch's CEO Gideon Mantel joins other email defense industry leaders to present on a panel: "Zombie Trojans Throwing Spears: Coming Soon to a Mailbox Near You" at the upcoming RSA Security Conference to be held at San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
Mr. Mantel will be joined by global figures in messaging security:
• Steve Hunt, President and CEO, 4A International
• Mike Dodson, Technical Director for World-Wide Strategic Accounts, Mirapoint
• Ike Kim, Executive VP and CTO, Ahnlab
• Bernard Fraenkel, Vice President, Engineering, Sendmail
The panel will discuss solutions to today’s and tomorrow’s messaging security threats; from sophisticated image-based spam to email phishing scams, and Trojan malware that captures PCs into zombie botnets.
Panel topics will include:
• Recent trends and upcoming threats to email security
• Declining efficacy of popular anti-virus and anti-spam technologies and new solutions
• Practical solutions for IT Security Managers
• How email security challenges differ among varying geographic locations
The panel (session code: DEF-303) will be held on Thursday, February 8 at 10:40 am PST, Gold Room 205 at the RSA Security conference.
About Commtouch
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 and Zero-Hour virus protection 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 more than 50 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 Mountain View, Calif. For more information, see: www.commtouch.com. The site includes the Commtouch online lab detailing spam statistics and charts.
Contact:
Rebecca Steinberg Herson
US: 650-864-2112
Int’l: +972-9-863-6877
rebeccah@commtouch.com
