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Mirror Image Speeds Global Content Distribution and Caching of Netcraft's Anti-Phishing Toolbar

Posted on: Monday, 22 August 2005, 09:00 CDT

Mirror Image(R) Internet, an established provider of results-driven content delivery solutions powered by a patented global network, today announced that Netcraft has selected and deployed Mirror Image's content delivery network. Netcraft, an Internet services company, is using Mirror Image's content distribution and caching services to speed all communication between the Netcraft toolbar and Netcraft's servers.

According to Mike Prettejohn, director at Netcraft, Mirror Image's global content caching and distribution network has provided perceptible improvements in response times for the Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar throughout the world. "The toolbar's response time, as measured by our monitors in seven data centers, had been averaging 0.29 seconds. The shift to Mirror Image has accelerated performance, reducing the toolbar's average response time to 0.12 seconds, with reductions of between 47 and 74 percent from various points around the globe."

The Netcraft Anti-Phishing toolbar community is effectively a giant neighborhood watch initiative, in which the most alert and expert members act to defend the larger community of users against phishing frauds. Once the first recipients of a phishing mail have reported the target URL, it is blocked for toolbar users who subsequently access the URL. Widely disseminated attacks simply mean that the phishing attack will be reported and blocked sooner.

"The deployment of Mirror Image's global caching system brings faster and more consistent response times to people using the Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar throughout the world," stated John Rozen, chief operating officer at Mirror Image. "In addition, it helps Netcraft smoothly scale the toolbar system, as the number of users has grown significantly since the release of the Firefox version of the toolbar in May 2005."

The Netcraft Anti-Phishing Toolbar is available to ISPs and enterprises that wish to protect their customers or employees from phishing attacks. It is available for download at: http://toolbar.netcraft.com/help/tutorials/installing.html.

About Netcraft

Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath, England. The company provides network security services, including application testing, code reviews and automated penetration testing, as well as research data and analysis on many aspects of the Internet.

The Netcraft toolbar (http://toolbar.netcraft.com) is used by tens of thousands of people worldwide, who have reported and blocked over 16,000 phishing sites to date.

About Mirror Image Internet

Mirror Image(R) Internet, Inc. combines a patented global network with results-driven content delivery solutions to help customers deploy, monitor and refine online strategies. The company's track record of success has given leading retailers, advertisers, media companies and enterprises the control they need to maximize assets and reduce costs while enhancing the visitor experience.

Recognized by EContent magazine as one of the 100 "Companies That Matter Most" in the digital content industry, Mirror Image is a U.S.-based company incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Tewksbury, Mass. Mirror Image is a subsidiary of Xcelera Inc. and has been delivering Internet infrastructure services since 1999. For additional information, please visit www.mirror-image.com or call +1 866 374 4113.

Source: Business Wire

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