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Cloudmark Extends Industry-Leading Messaging Security to Mid-Market and Independent Service Providers

Posted on: Tuesday, 24 April 2007, 12:00 CDT

Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced messaging security solutions optimized for service providers with fewer than 500,000 mailboxes. In the past year, seven of the top ten ISPs/carriers in North America selected Cloudmark Authority(TM) to protect millions of consumers from spam, phishing and virus threats. As part of its ongoing commitment to completely serve the carrier market, Cloudmark is offering a software plug-in for service providers who have deployed Apache SpamAssassin(TM). This new solution brings the industry's fastest and most accurate messaging security solution to ISPs of all sizes (tier-1, mid-market, and independent).

Named the "best Linux-based anti-spam solution" at the Linux News Media Awards 2006, SpamAssassin is deployed in more than 100,000 organizations for email filtering using a diverse range of tests to identify spam in virtually any email system. Cloudmark Authority for SpamAssassin enables users to significantly increase accuracy while experiencing greater operational efficiency and drastically reduced administration. Cloudmark's Advanced Message Fingerprinting(TM) and real-time, corroborated feedback from the Global Threat Network scans messages for all forms of abuse using an in-memory cache of verified fingerprints that is updated every 45 seconds.

"SpamAssassin is the most widely adopted Open Source solution for content filtering," said Justin Mason, vice president of Apache SpamAssassin. "With Cloudmark Authority for SpamAssassin, users get a best-of-breed solution that easily integrates into their existing infrastructure with improved accuracy in blocking spam and malware while lowering CPU usage and storage requirements. The result is cost-effective, carrier-grade messaging security for mid-market and independent ISPs."

"It's well known that service providers use up much of their server resources on junk email and the more we can reduce spam and stop spending precious man-hours on tweaking servers, the more efficient our business runs," said Martin Lathoud, system administrator for B2B2C Inc. "Cloudmark Authority for SpamAssassin enables us to easily integrate Cloudmark Authority into our existing security infrastructure, without the need for additional development or tools. This powerful combination of SpamAssassin's email filtering with Cloudmark's advanced fingerprinting technology lowered CPU utilization and reduced the incidents of false positives, which makes a huge difference in cost of ownership and overall customer satisfaction."

"Cloudmark has a long, successful history of working with SpamAssassin," said Vipul Ved Prakash, founder and chief scientist of Cloudmark. "Authority for SpamAssassin enables existing users to easily harness the power and accuracy of Cloudmark Authority within the framework of the Apache SpamAssassin platform. We are pleased to extend our presence in the Open Source world to mid-market and independent ISPs by delivering our best-of-class solution in this easy form factor."

Vipul Ved Prakash is the author of Vipul's Razor, the Open Source edition of Cloudmark's anti-spam technology, which has more than 1 million unique installations, most of which are coupled with SpamAssassin.

About Cloudmark

Cloudmark, Inc. is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, delivering the industry's fastest, most comprehensive and most accurate real-time spam, virus and phishing protection for fixed and mobile networks. Cloudmark solutions combine highly sophisticated Advanced Message Fingerprinting(TM) technology based on innovative, high performance algorithms and a Global Threat Network consisting of trusted reporters in 163 countries to provide security intelligence and filtering at all points in the messaging infrastructure. Cloudmark solutions currently protect more than 180 million mailboxes and more than 80 of the world's largest service provider and mobile operator networks (including seven of the top 10 in North America), such as Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, NTT Communications, SprintNextel, Virgin Mobile and UPC Chello. Cloudmark is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Tokyo and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit www.cloudmark.com.

 Media contact: Marisa Dulyachinda or Matt Grant Schwartz Communications, Inc. cloudmark@schwartz-pr.com (415) 512-0770  

SOURCE: Cloudmark

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