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5/29/2007    Taiwan-Based Openfind Strengthens Email Protection With Commtouch Solutions
"We chose Commtouch because RPD™ technology is language-agnostic and therefore improves detection rates for all types of global spam, no matter what the language or character set," explains Openfind executive vice president, Ivan Liao.
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5/14/2007    RPD Enhanced Cyberoam UTM Nominated for Best New Product Award
Cyberoam’s CRi Series is the next-generation identity-based Unified Threat Management appliance, offering integrated Internet security to enterprises. Cyberoam features include identity-based firewall, VPN, gateway antivirus, gateway anti-spam, intrusion detection and prevention, Web content and application filtering, bandwidth management and multiple link management.
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5/9/2007    RPD Enhanced ParetoLogic Spam Controls Now Available
The new software, for use on Outlook or Outlook Express, boasts one of the highest detection rates in the industry and unlike traditional spam filters, is able to detect spam that is disguised in graphics and html formats.
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5/3/2007    Commtouch Enhanced MPP: Unbeatable Anti-spam for Open Source Email Servers
"There is no more effective anti-spam solution for Postfix than our double-layer architecture," says Michael Katz, President of Message Partners.
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3/27/2007    Message Systems and Commtouch Partner to Combat Spam, Viruses for ISPs
COLUMBIA, MARYLAND and SUNNYVALE, CALIF. – March 27, 2007 – Email software solutions provider Message Systems and Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) today announced that the two companies are working together to provide real-time threat protection solutions to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) on a high volume email delivery platform. The growing volumes and variety of spam and malware—especially image spam and virus variants emitted by botnets—have eluded traditional anti-spam and AV engines in the past year. As a result, the ISP’s job of protecting their customers has become increasingly more complex.
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2/14/2007    Korea's AhnLab Wins Anti-virus Contract from Banamex
South Korean vendor expands beyond Asia in $550,000 security deal with major Mexican bank
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2/6/2007    Sendmail Enhances Trusted Unified Messaging Platform with Commtouch Reputation Services
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., RSA Conference – February 5, 2007 – Sendmail, Inc., the leading global provider of trusted messaging, today announced enhancements to its Trusted Unified Messaging Platform (TrUMP) with a number of significant product releases designed to support the growing need for bi-directional, policy-centric message processing and protection. The company unveiled three next-generation products that ensure trusted messaging against both external and internal threats. These new product releases, which leverage Sendmail’s 25-year history in messaging, include Sentrion™ 2.0, Flow Control™ 2.0 and Mailstream Manager™ 2.4.
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10/25/2006    Sendmail Celebrates 25 Years of Internet Mail
Sendmail, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise solutions for secure, dependable and compliant messaging, is hosting an event on October 25th to celebrate 25 Years of Internet Mail. Beginning with the initial SMTP implementation of sendmail in 1981 by Eric Allman, co-founder of Sendmail, the event recognizes the significant impact Internet Mail has made to global communications over the past 25 years.
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5/25/2006    One in Three Companies Operate Without Email Usage Policies, Risking Damage to Their Systems and Reputations, Sendmail Finds
“Sendmail’s unified policy management fills the gaps created by the point solutions that companies commonly deploy within their messaging environments,” said Carol Stone, Sendmail VP Marketing.
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2/14/2006    Sendmail & Commtouch announce partnership at RSA2006
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1/15/2007    Commtouch Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Protection to Enhance Electric Mail’s Traditional Anti-Virus Solution
Commtouch’s Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Protection has been integrated into VirusSMART, Electric Mail’s proprietary anti-virus solution. Zero-Hour protection complements traditional anti-virus solutions, and is designed to detect and identify email-borne viruses and malware by providing detection and blocking of viruses within moments of an outbreak, before traditional defenses kick in.
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2/5/2007    Mirapoint Offers Commtouch Enabled Email Security Appliance on IBM BladeCenter To Secure Large Enterprise and Service Provider Networks
Mirapoint, the secure messaging expert, today announced another security industry first - Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security appliance on IBM BladeCenter. This collaboration combines Mirapoint’s best in class email security technology with IBM’s industry leading BladeCenter to offer large enterprise and service provider customers a high performance, intensely scalable solution for delivering email security throughout their infrastructure.
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1/21/2007    Mirapoint Razorgate Email Security Appliances Ranked 2nd in Market Share in Europe by the Radicati Group
Mirapoint’s RazorGate Email Security Appliance Builds Momentum with Leading Enterprises and Service Providers throughout Europe
11/17/2006    Mirapoint to ensure email security at the NHS
The National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom is to employ Mirapoint appliances to safeguard the confidential content travelling via its email, calendar, and directory system, NHSmail. Currently used by over 200,000 NHS staff members, Mirapoint plans to extend its service protection to cover more than one million users, making this project the largest enterprise deployment of its kind in the world.
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9/19/2006    Email Deliverability and Local Reputation Webinar
Controlling what email messages are accepted by an enterprise email system is increasingly being tied to the reputation of the sender. How do you use reputation in a mail transfer agent (MTA) to improve email fidelity? Join industry analyst Michael Osterman together with Mirapoint, F-Secure, and Commtouch for this first ever webinar. September 19, 11 am Pacific.
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6/5/2006    Mirapoint Earns Five Prestigious Honors for Technology Innovation and Product Excellence
Mirapoint’s RazorGate email security platform -- with Commtouch technology inside -- earned the company Frost & Sullivan’s 2006 Technology Innovation of the Year in the field of appliance-based email.
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11/28/2005    Mirapoint Launches Secure Messaging Center, Powered by Commtouch
“Miracare” portal is spiced with power features from Commtouch Online Lab including an online world map highlighting spam outbreaks in real time.
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5/3/2005    Mirapoint adds Commtouch Zero-Hour(tm) protection to its MailHurdle appliance
"RAPID Anti-Virus helps customers identify viruses in minutes from ground zero of an outbreak. ..."
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11/8/2004    PC World: "Mirapoint adds antispam technology"
Mirapoint ... to offers real-time protection against spam and many virus threats... Rapid Anti-Spam is based on the Recurrent Pattern Detection technology licensed from Commtouch, a developer of proprietary anti-spam solutions.
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11/8/2004    Computerworld: "Mirapoint adds antispam technology'
...Rapid Anti-Spam works with Mirapoint's MailHurdle edge-blocking technology to fight spam and viruses that spread via spam messages. Rapid Anti-Spam is based on the Recurrent Pattern Detection technology licensed from Commtouch, a developer of proprietary anti-spam solutions.
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2/22/2007    Proofpoint Sponsors Security Management Virtual Tradeshow
Expert will offer advice on technologies that will be most effective in protecting against enterprise threats.
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1/10/2007    Commtouch and Proofpoint Report: Server-side Polymorphic Viruses Defeat Traditional AV Solutions
Computer viruses, which grew progressively more virulent over the course of 2006, overwhelmed traditional Anti-Virus solutions according to the 2006 Email-borne Malware Review released today by Commtouch (Nasdaq: CTCH) and Proofpoint, Inc. New server-side polymorphic viruses that emerged during 2006 launched rapid burst attacks comprised of vast numbers of variants in order to circumvent common AV defenses.
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6/15/2007    MXSweep Takes Spam Off the Menu at Schools and Universities
Commtouch partner has introduced a new education pricing structure that finally makes it affordable for schools and universities to completely protect their students from Spam and the increasing danger of email-borne threats.
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12/18/2006    MXSweep Offers UK Businesses Clean, Pure Email in Just 60 Minutes
MXSweep, Ireland's leading provider of Managed Security Services is todaylaunching into the UK market. From its range of Anti-Virus, Anti-Spam,Anti-Fraud and Attachment Filtering products MXSweep has the appropriatehosted email security service to protect British businesses of any size with24x7 support. MXSweep provides premium solutions, competitively priced incomparison to leading vendors such as Message Labs and Blackspider.
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4/20/2007    Alt-N Honored as Online Safety Leader by the Authentication and Online Trust Association
The honored companies have gone above and beyond by developing and adopting innovative technologies to combat online exploits...
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10/25/2006    Alt-N Unveils Next Generation of Email and Spam Protection to its MDaemon Users
Alt-N Technologies announced SecurityPlus for MDaemon® as its newest weapon in the fight against the complex threat of email-borne viruses, spam and other malware. SecurityPlus incorporates traditional signature based anti-virus technology as well as a totally new proactive Outbreak Protection technology based on Commtouch technology, to deliver the strongest protection available.
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10/23/2006    Network World Selects Declude as "Top 10 Security Companies to Watch"
Network World's Cara Garretson and Ellen Messmer select the top 10 security companies to watch, writing: "Breaking into this vast and diverse technology market means more than just having a good product; newcomers need to bring revolutionary technology, an elegant resolution to a vexing problem, an offering that integrates unusually well with the world around it - something to distinguish it from the crowd. At the same time, security is such a strategic issue for enterprises that few are willing to put their money behind a young company that doesn't already have a few Fortune 500 entries on its customer list."
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10/10/2006    Declude Unveils
Declude's "Free is Free" initiative supplies Email security software for non-profit organizations that support children in need. One of the first participants in the Free is Free program was ETTA Projects (www.ettaprojects.org), a Seattle organization founded in the memory of Etta Turner that is dedicated to helping Bolivian mothers feed their families and find their way out of poverty. ETTA Projects does this by empowering Bolivian families to transcend poverty through education, economic opportunities, and a supportive community that helps provide balanced meals, vitamins and basic preventative healthcare for children.
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7/18/2006    Declude Strengthens Email Defense Solution with Commtouch Zero-Hour Virus Protection Technology
Declude’s comprehensive Email defense system incorporates anti-virus, anti-spam, hijack prevention and Security Flaw Scanning (SFS) into a single offering – providing companies with a unified Email solution for protecting both inbound and outbound messages. The Commtouch RPD™ technology is being integrated into the Declude Security Suite for IMail and SmarterMail, and into Declude’s Interceptor™ gateway product.
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1/23/2007    Commtouch Enabled WatchGuard UTM Gets Top Review from Computer Weekly
Computer Weekly reviewed Firebox X, the WatchGuard unified threat management (UTM) appliance, a one-stop shop for border security needs, especially for a small-to medium-sized business.
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12/4/2006    WatchGuard Brings Unified Threat Management to Small Business and Remote Offices with Latest Firebox X Edge
"Being a physically small business or located at a remote site doesn't make one immune from cyber threats. All persons using the Internet, need to understand that they are confronted with the same threats large enterprises are..."
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2/24/2006    ABC covers Watchguard's Commtouch-integrated product
“Commtouch's "Zero-Hour" service scans Internet traffic on an ongoing basis and analyzes the sources of malicious outbreaks... "
2/23/2006    PC Magazine Publishes Product Review of Firebox X8000, Watchguards’ flagship product, with Commtouch Technology
“WatchGuard introduced a new spam-blocking service in partnership with Commtouch (www.commtouch.com). The new component doesn't require signatures to detect junk e-mail... "
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10/24/2005    Watchguard integrates & launch new security features based on Commtouch technology
"Our partnership with Commtouch is in line with this strategy and will enable us to deliver the broadest and most powerful Unified Threat Management protection in the industry." - John Stuckey, VP Marketing
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