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CLOUDMARK UNVEILS MULTI-POINT SECURITY SOLUTION FOR HOLISTIC SPAM PROTECTION
First end-to-end messaging security solution delivers protection from the network to the user inbox LONDON—22 September 2008—Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced its Multi-Point Security™ solution, the first end-to-end messaging security suite that protects all points in the messaging infrastructure, from the network connection through to the user mailbox. With Cloudmark’s Multi-Point Security solution, service providers benefit from a cohesive solution that delivers greater breadth of threat coverage, near 100 percent accuracy, reduced resource requirements, simplified management and faster issue resolution. Today, spammers are deploying increasingly sophisticated techniques to evade spam, phishing and virus filters and reach their targets. For example, new attacks merge multiple threat types into converged “mash-up” attacks and feature mutating message variations within an individual attack, all to get around existing protections. Spammers also continue to increase the speed and volume by which they distribute new attacks, a technique that inevitably leads to some spam getting through to email inboxes. All of this has lead to significant operational challenges and a harsh reality for most operators: spam now constitutes more than 95 percent of all email traffic and 15 percent of mail stores. In addition, escalating spam volumes and unexpected attacks result in unplanned “infrastructure creep,” as well as unreliable accuracy, causing operational fire-drills whenever a spam outbreak occurs. To deal with the exploding spam problem, service providers have been forced to cobble together “point solutions” isolated to their messaging servers to attempt to achieve acceptable levels of accuracy in blocking spam messages. Unfortunately, these point solutions provide incomplete protection. With multiple layers acting independently, separate point solutions inevitably lead to manageability problems, lower accuracy resulting from gaps between point solutions that can be exploited by attackers, and a general lack of accountability and ownership among multiple vendors when a new outbreak occurs. Cloudmark’s Multi-Point Security solution changes the paradigm by bringing together best-in-class network, filtering, storage and user feedback solutions into a single offering that delivers protection every stage in the messaging infrastructure. Cloudmark’s Multi-Point Security solution includes: * Cloudmark Sender Intelligence™ service at the Network and Protocol Stages: Cloudmark blocks, throttles or allows connections at the network level or during the SMTP session using highly accurate sender data, resulting in reduced resource and bandwidth requirements. * Cloudmark Authority™ software at the content stage: The industry’s fastest and most accurate content filtering solution for spam, phishing and viruses. * Cloudmark ActiveFilter™ technology at the Mail Store: Cloudmark deletes or moves unopened spam messages that have slipped past existing defenses from subscriber inboxes without requiring any rescanning. This highly efficient and scalable process eliminates the advantages of high-speed attacks and helps operators increase filtering accuracy to more than 99 percent. * Cloudmark Network Feedback System™ at the User Interaction Stage: Cloudmark enables improved user experiences through the Cloudmark Network Feedback System, leading to improved “stickiness” of operator services. This includes empowering users to influence message classifications in real time by reporting spam and false positives, enabling users to safely unsubscribe from newsletters they no longer want, and giving end users visibility into filtering effectiveness and how their feedback is being incorporated. * Cloudmark Gateway™ software enabling a single management platform: Cloudmark brings together Cloudmark Sender Intelligence™ technology to block, throttle or pass traffic in real time with Cloudmark Authority software and a unified policy engine that enables advanced message handling capabilities to thwart new attacks all in a single, easy-to-manage edge MTA system. “Over the past several years, Cloudmark has taken a leadership position in the service provider email security market,” said Neil Cook, head of technology services EMEA, Cloudmark. “Happy with the solutions we provide, our customers have increasingly looked to us for help with problems across their messaging environments. Cloudmark’s Multi-Point Security solution is our response to these demands, developed through strong innovation and partnership with the world’s largest operators. This is truly an industry first, bringing together our industry-leading technologies into a single, cohesive offering that delivers the highest levels of protection at every point in the messaging infrastructure. By looking at the total problem, we have created a solution that results not only in reduced system resources and greater filtering accuracy, but also simplified management and resolution. We firmly believe that with our Multi-Point Security solution, Cloudmark gives operators every advantage in the battle against spam.” About Cloudmark Cloudmark, Inc. is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, delivering the most accurate, high-performance and comprehensive real-time spam, virus and phishing protection for fixed, mobile and social networks. Cloudmark patented solutions combine Advanced Message Fingerprinting technology based on innovative, highly efficient algorithms and a Global Threat Network consisting of trusted reporters in every country across the globe to provide security intelligence and filtering at all points of the messaging infrastructure. Cloudmark solutions protect more than 700 million mailboxes for the world’s largest service provider networks, including over 75 percent of major ISPs in the United States and Japan. Cloudmark‘s customers include Swisscom, EarthLink, Comcast, Tele2, Thus, NTT OCN and XS4ALL (KPN) as well as leading hosting providers, Mailtrust, domainFACTORY, Intergenia and others. Cloudmark is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudmark.com.
