Sunnyvale, Calif. and Hsin-Chu, Taiwan – August 8, 2007 – Draytek and Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced that Draytek has licensed Commtouch Anti-Spam technology to enhance the new VigorPro5500 all-in-one unified threat management appliance.
“For our customers, solid spam and malware defense is imperative,” said Donald Lin, Vice President of DrayTek Corp.. “Therefore Draytek chose the world’s leading OEM provider of outbreak detection solutions. Adding the Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD™) technology makes VigorPro5500 the complete security appliance for small to medium-sized enterprises.”
“Draytek is a leading provider of UTM solutions in Taiwan and we are thrilled to work together to bring the Commtouch advanced email defense solutions to their customers,” said Ronni Zehavi, vice president of international business development at Commtouch. “RPD technology has a very small footprint, making Commtouch a perfect fit for memory-constrained UTMs and network appliances.”
Based on DrayOS 3, DrayTek's own highly efficient integrated network operating system, VigorPro provides broad security functions without extra hardware costs. Commtouch’s patented RPD technology enables real-time detection and blocking of malicious email, regardless of language, format or encoding, and helps VigorPro5500 achieve a detection rate of over 97% with very few false positives.
Since its establishment in 1997, DrayTek has been focusing on providing comprehensive remote access solutions for small office and home users. From its roots as the leading provider of remote access solutions, Draytek today has become a global vendor of VPN Firewall, VoIP and Unified Security solutions for small and medium size enterprises (SME). Draytek’s tradition of innovation and technology excellence continues to provide market-leading products including enterprise-level Security Firewall, mission-critical VPN facilities for SMB, and versatile xDSL CPE integrated with VoIP, Wireless and ISDN for SOHO users. For more information, please visit www.draytek.com.
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 Reputation Service 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 scores of 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 Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, see: http://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.
Draytek Contact:
press@draytek.com
Commtouch Contact:
Rebecca Steinberg Herson
rebeccah@commtouch.com
US: 650-864-2112
Int'l: +972-9-863-6877
