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Message Systems and Commtouch Join Forces to Fight Zombies
(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) CHICAGO, IL, July 29 / MARKET WIRE/ --
HostingCon '08 Booth #810 -- Millions of agile
botnets dodged defenses and polluted the Internet with email threats,
according to the
Q2 2008 Email Threats Trends Report issued by messaging and web
security technology provider Commtouch? (NASDAQ: CTCH).
While spammers and malware writers experimented with a few new techniques
during the quarter, no innovation was needed for zombies to continue
pummeling email users and networks with unwanted messages and hazardous
code. According to the report, 10 million zombie IP addresses are active
each day, on average, and spam levels throughout the second quarter
averaged 77 percent of all email messages.
"Zombie networks or 'botnets' are flooding email with malicious threats,
and wasting organizations' bandwidth and storage," said Amir Lev,
Commtouch's chief technology officer and president.
To counter the unrelenting zombie and botnet attacks, software solutions
provider Message Systems has integrated the Commtouch email security
technology into its EoN carrier-class mail transfer agent (MTA). Combining
high performance edge protection, message processing and policy-based
protocol with Commtouch's Recurrent
Pattern Detection (TM) technology, EoN delivers sustained performance
while supporting full protection that consistently achieves global
filtering rates of over 95 percent.
EoN's ability to centrally manage and share data between MTAs allows
detection of zombie/ botnet activity earlier than other edge software
providers by sharing real-time intelligent analysis of abnormal sender
behavior across the network, thus preventing the spammer from rolling from
one MTA to another to prolong a spam attack. Additionally, changes to
policies or blocking can be made in real-time, by way of seamless MTA
propagation, with no associated restart. By eliminating the restarts
incurred by other edge and MTA software providers, EoN gives service
providers the highest possible availability in the industry, with customer
reports of uninterrupted 100% availability over a 12-month time period.
"The dual protection provided by EoN and Recurrent Pattern Detection from
Commtouch is a significant tool to combat spam sent by zombies," said
Catherine Foster, Director Product Management for Message Systems. "Zombies
or botnets produce distinctive patterns that can be automatically detected.
Detection coupled with intelligent reporting and throttling techniques can
be used to block or slow down messages from zombie-infected computers.
This is also very valuable technique to immobilize internal messaging
network attacks from compromised webmail accounts."
More about Message Systems Edge of Network (EoN)
Message Systems EoN is a comprehensive email solution for carriers and email
receivers that delivers speed, high performance, manageability,
extensibility and security at an affordable cost. Capable of delivering
millions of unique messages per hour, Message Systems EoN is the fastest
email solution on the market today. A comprehensive policy management
module features a full threat prevention matrix and the ability to select
best-in-class anti-spam and antivirus solutions to protect enterprise
networks.
About Message Systems
Founded in 1997, Message Systems is a worldwide provider of email software
solutions and services for email service providers (ESPs), Internet service
providers (ISPs) and large enterprises that need to manage the delivery of
large amounts of business-critical email. Through a combination of
technology, partnerships and intellectual capital, Message Systems offers a
family of software solutions and services that address the email
infrastructure and deliverability needs for organizations ranging from
regional businesses to the Global 2000. With the most powerful Message
Transfer Agent (MTA) on the market supporting more than 100,000 concurrent
connections per server, Message Systems gets millions of unique messages to
the right place at the right time. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland,
Message Systems has a network of channel partners in North America, Europe
and Asia. For more information, go to http://www.messagesystems.com.
About Commtouch
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.
Contact:
Angela McMahon
Carabiner Communications
404-543-9636amcmahon@carabinerpr.com
Copyright ? 2008 Marketwire
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