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Cloudmark Becomes Associate Member of ETIS Global IT Association for Telecommunications

Posted on: Monday, 2 July 2007, 09:19 CDT

Cloudmark, the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced that it has joined ETIS, the global IT association for telecommunications, as an Associate Member. Cloudmark will work with ETIS to share knowledge and experience with its membership of major European national telecommunications organizations in order to intensify the industry's fight against the growing spam problem.

Cloudmark's carrier-grade software solution, Cloudmark Authority, delivers the industry's most effective and highest performing anti-spam, anti-phishing and anti-virus protection. The company's extensive user base consists of seven of the top 10 service providers in the U.S., eight of the top 10 in Japan, and some of the largest in Europe, including Swisscom. This legacy of experience makes Cloudmark uniquely positioned to understand the growing threat of spam on any network, whether wireline or wireless, and how best to combat that threat.

"We are delighted that Cloudmark has joined ETIS as an Associate Member," said Terje Tondel, managing director of ETIS. "Our members consist of some of the largest telecommunications organizations in Europe, which handle some of the highest volumes of messages in the industry. With spam making up 80 percent of all email traffic, the affect for our members is astronomical. They are fighting spam at the highest levels of message volume and we look forward to working with Cloudmark to address such an important issue."

"Cloudmark is privileged to be accepted into ETIS membership," said Bassam Khan, VP product marketing and marketing. "Addressing the issue of spam requires not only an effective technology solution, but also cooperation between service providers. ETIS provides that platform for cooperation, acting as an effective organization to address the mounting problem of spam in Europe. By working together, sharing knowledge and pooling resources, it is possible to reduce the volume of spam even before it hits a service provider's network, massively reducing the impact of spam."

For service providers, spam can cause overhead to spiral out of control. These costs include infrastructure for the storage of spam and an increase in operational costs, which adds to issues around customer relations and, in turn, leads to customer churn.

Cloudmark's easy-to-manage, scalable solution consistently blocks more than 98 percent of inbound and outbound messaging attacks in real time with near zero false positives. In addition to this level of accuracy, Cloudmark Authority requires significantly less processing power than competitive solutions, frees network resources and delivers an immediate improvement in filtering reliability and accuracy. The result is overall reduced overhead and improved customer experience.

About ETIS

ETIS is a membership-based organization that brings together the major telecommunications providers in Europe on key information and communication technology issues. The mission of ETIS is to enable its members to improve their business performance by personal exchange of information on using ICT effectively. ETIS achieves this by engaging its members in various working groups, sharing best-practices, benchmarking, Web-based information services, discussion forums, EU projects, workshops and conferences. For more information, please visit www.etis.org.

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 EarthLink, Comcast, Cablevision, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, NTT Communications, SprintNextel, Virgin Mobile and Swisscom. 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.

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

SOURCE: Cloudmark

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