San Francisco, Calif., RSA Conference, April 7, 2008 – Commtouch (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced the availability of its new GlobalView™ Zombie Intelligence Service, which provides real-time data about zombies and their behavior.
"Zombies are a critical problem since they are responsible for the majority of malicious activity on the Internet," said Michael Osterman, Principal Osterman Research. "Zombies are the perpetrators of DDoS attacks, click fraud, and credit card fraud, and they often host malware sites."
GlobalView Zombie Intelligence is designed to enable vendors of security, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, anti-fraud and anti-DDoS products to augment their solutions with anti-zombie offerings for their customers.
Zombie On-Line Statistics
Together with the product launch, Commtouch is unveiling a new Zombie Lab Online Statistics section on its web site. The lab presents daily updates of GlobalView zombie data, including:
To view the Zombie statistics lab, visit: http://www.commtouch.com/Site/Resources/ZombieMonitor.asp
The GlobalView Zombie Intelligence Service is founded on Commtouch’s unique view of global Internet traffic. Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD™) technology analyzes over one billion transactions per day, including email and web traffic. The feedback loop between Commtouch messaging and web security technologies enables Commtouch to automatically identify zombie IP addresses rapidly, with superior accuracy and near-zero false positives.
Rapid, straightforward integration of GlobalView Zombie Intelligence into existing security solutions gives security vendors a competitive advantage in blocking zombies and zombie-generated activity for their customers. GlobalView provides rich, actionable information about zombies, including:
GlobalView Zombie Intelligence Service is currently available for license to vendors. For more information, see http://www.commtouch.com/Site/Products/zombie.asp.
Commtouch Software Ltd. (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 and millions of users in over 100 countries. Commtouch's Data 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 Caf? 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
