Sunnyvale, Calif., December 21, 2009 – Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced the availability of a new version of its GlobalView™ URL Filtering solution which provides highly accurate, secure protection against Web threats while enabling safe, compliant browsing.
New Features: Support for Broad Changes in Web Domain Format
The new version of Commtouch GlobalView URL Filtering is positioned for existing and emerging Internet standards including:
The new version of Commtouch’s GlobalView URL Filtering solution is designed to meet these new and growing challenges of parsing multiple languages and characters. Web filtering solutions that have not adapted to these changes will be unable to properly recognize and catalogue Web pages using these new techniques. While this is a change that will be more prevalent as the Web continues to evolve, there are already instances of domain registrants around the world implementing these standards.
“Over the last few months, Commtouch Data Centers have already recognized and successfully analyzed Web pages using these multi-language techniques. In line with our commitment to developing future-proof technology, we identified them and modified our technologies accordingly,” said Asaf Greiner, vice president of products at Commtouch. “Malware writers, phishers and other cybercriminals will try to leverage these changes, and technologies that cannot recognize non-Latin characters in domain names will be unable to properly categorize the threats, thereby leaving their customers vulnerable.”
Data Cloud Technology Protects Against Evolving Web Threats
Commtouch Data Cloud technology processes billions of transactions each day from diversified global data sources and leverages its “cloud” to overcome the size and performance limitations of other types of URL filtering technology. Because of the massive database in the cloud, lightweight local clients can offer a tailored solution for individual machines by receiving and storing only the data users need when they need it.
Availability
Commtouch GlobalView URL Filtering is currently available for usage by security vendors and service providers as a software development kit. It can be easily integrated into their products to protect end users and increase revenue from advanced security offerings.
More Information
To download a white paper about Commtouch’s GlobalView URL Filtering solution, visit http://www.commtouch.com/globalview-url-filtering-sdk.
About Commtouch
Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) provides proven messaging and Web security technology to more than 100 security companies and service providers for integration into their solutions.
Commtouch’s patented Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) and GlobalView™ technologies are founded on a unique cloud-based approach, and work together in a comprehensive feedback loop to 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. Commtouch was founded in 1991, is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, and has a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif.
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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
