Mountain View, Calif. and New Rochelle, NY – February 16, 2007 – Message Partners and Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced that Commtouch anti-spam technology is available within Message Partners' Message Processing Platform (MPP) for internet service providers and enterprises.
MPP's powerful email security application enables service providers to offer comprehensive solutions for virus, spam and content filtering. Its policy engine gives service providers the flexibility they need to offer differentiated service offerings based on domain and customer type.
"Due to the alarming recent rise of image spam, which threatens to drown email servers everywhere, Message Partners was searching for the highest detection accuracy possible, as well as the ability to filter email in all languages," said Michael Katz, President of Message Partners. "Commtouch gives us the global detection accuracy we need for our worldwide customers, along with the advanced technology that will allow us to defend email against the next generation of spam and viruses."
"We're excited to be a part of Message Partners' cutting edge solutions for service providers worldwide," said Jay Goldin, VP Business Development at Commtouch. "Service Providers are committed to bringing their customers accurate and efficient security solutions, exactly what this joint Message Partners and Commtouch solution delivers.
MPP is an innovative email security application that enables service providers to build blended email service offerings that leverage the best of commercial and open source security technologies. Service providers that utilize MPP rather than custom developed or pure open source solutions for their email filtering services increase performance and customer satisfaction and reduce costs and time to market. MPP enables service providers to build carrier class service offerings using best-in-class technologies like Commtouch anti-spam, popular open source email servers such as Postfix, QMail and Sendmail, and open operating systems like Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris.
About Message Partners
Message Partners, based in New Rochelle, NY, provides email security with the groundbreaking MPP, which delivers the accuracy, scalability, and adaptability that is ideal for service providers. Message Partners supports thousands of customers worldwide and has a global network of resellers, distributors, and partners.
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, Zero-Hour virus protection and IP Reputation 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 more than 50 OEM partners, Commtouch technology protects thousands of organizations, with over 50 million 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.
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.
Message Partners Contact:
Peter Schooff
US: (917)568-6415
pschooff@messagepartners.com
Commtouch Contact:
Rebecca Steinberg Herson
US: 650-864-2112
Int'l: +972-9-863-6877
rebeccah@commtouch.com
