MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. –February 13, 2006. Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH), the developer of ground-breaking RPD™ technology for real time anti-spam and Zero-Hour™ virus protection, announced today that it has signed a licensing agreement with Intoto, a leading provider of network-centric secure gateway software for networking and communications original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Intoto’s selection of Commtouch is seen as another affirmation of the suitability of Commtouch’s RPD technology for the most advanced network security equipment. Commtouch’s email security solution will now be available on small office-home office (SOHO) devices, residential gateways, and security appliances.
Under the terms of the agreement, Commtouch’s proven anti-spam and Zero-Hour Virus Protection technologies will be offered as an integrated module for Intoto’s iGateway EX and RGS software platforms. The combined solution allows networking security vendors to add gateway-based anti-spam capabilities to their unified threat management (UTM) and standard security appliances.
Strategic Enhancement to Enterprise-grade and Residential Gateways
“Commtouch’s anti-spam and Zero-Hour protection services are the perfect complement to our iGateway platforms,” said Doug Makishima, vice president of marketing at Intoto. “Given the significant impact spam and malware has on productivity in the workplace, the addition of these new protection services enables Intoto to offer a very competitive, feature-rich software platform for our SOHO and enterprise network equipment customers. We look forward to working with Commtouch in bringing comprehensive security solutions to market.”
Avner Amram, Executive Vice President of Commtouch, points out that spam and virus threats are becoming more sophisticated, challenging even the most accepted and popular solutions on the market. “New viruses and spam continue to assault business and residential customers, and present challenges to software and equipment makers to keep up. Now, security equipment vendors can save considerable time and money by incorporating best-of-class technologies from Intoto and Commtouch to defend against new outbreaks.”
About Intoto
Intoto has more than 100 design wins with high-volume global equipment manufacturers, including many top-tier networking equipment vendors. Analyst firm IDC recently recognized Intoto as a leading innovator in the UTM space for its software platforms, including iGateway, which incorporates firewall, VPN and intrusion detection capabilities.
About Commtouch
Commtouch Software Ltd. (NASDAQ: CTCH) is dedicated to protecting and preserving the integrity of the world's most important communications tool-email. Commtouch has 14 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 month to identify new spam and malware outbreaks within minutes of their introduction into the Internet. Integrated by over 30 OEM partners, Commtouch technology protects thousands of organizations, with over 35 million users in 100 countries. Commtouch is headquartered in Netanya, Israel and has a subsidiary in Mountain View, CA. For more information, see: www.commtouch.com.
Check the Commtouch online lab for further information, spam statistics and charts: http://www.commtouch.com/Site/ResearchLab/statistics.asp
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including projections about our business, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For example, statements in the future tense, and statements including words such as "expect," "plan," "estimate," "anticipate," or "believe" are forward-looking statements. These statements are based on information available to us at the time of the release; we assume no obligation to update any of them. The statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations as a result of numerous factors, including business conditions and growth or deterioration in the Internet market, commerce and the general economy, both domestic as well as international; fewer than expected new-partner relationships; fewer than expected license agreements resulting from Commtouch's exclusive rights to market DCC; competitive factors including pricing pressures; technological developments, and products offered by competitors; the ability of our OEM partners to successfully penetrate markets with products integrated with Commtouch technology; a slower than expected acceptance rate for real time AV solutions in general and the Commtouch Zero-Hour(TM) Virus Protection product in particular; availability of qualified staff for expansion; technological difficulties and resource constraints encountered in developing new products, such as the Zero-Hour solution; and the failure of Commtouch to meet The NASDAQ Capital Market's listing standards in the future, as well as those risks described in the text of this press release and the company's Annual Reports on Form 20-F and reports on Form 6-K, which are available through www.sec.gov.
Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD and Zero-Hour are trademarks, and Commtouch is a registered trademark, of Commtouch Software Ltd. U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 is owned by Commtouch.
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Commtouch Software Ltd.
Gary Davis, 650-864-2000
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