New IDC White Paper Examines Need for Reputation Services for Email Security
January 16 2007 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Commtouch (Nasdaq:CTCH) today announced the publication of an IDC
white paper entitled Commtouch Reputation Service: Fighting in the
Gray Zone, authored by Dan Yachin. The white paper outlines the
need for enterprises and service providers for new solutions to
cope with the recent surge in unwanted and malicious email, and
discusses emerging reputation-based filtering concepts that can
help reduce the volumes of spam at the perimeter, thus reducing
network overhead. �There is an immediate market need for accurate,
trustworthy reputation services, in order to block the rising tide
of spam and email-borne viruses flooding enterprises and service
providers,� said Yachin, the Research Director for EMEA Emerging
Technologies at IDC. �There are high barriers to entry for any
company that wishes to offer effective reputation services. These
include deep knowledge of email security, and access to vast
historical and real-time information about global email traffic. An
offering such as Commtouch�s Reputation Service can enable
organizations to eliminate the vast majority of unwanted traffic at
the perimeter, providing significant savings in bandwidth and IT
resources.� The document discusses that previously accepted
reputation methods such as Real-time Black Lists (RBLs),
whitelisting and static reputation services are ineffective in the
face of traffic generated by zombies or �bots, which generate 85%
of the world�s unwanted email messages. Zombies are typically home
computers that have been infected by Trojan malware, which permits
them to be controlled remotely in order to launch spam and virus
attacks. Home computers often change their IP address (i.e. the
identifying number that indicates location on the Internet) based
on a dynamic system with their Internet Service Provider. �Only a
real-time solution can address today�s state of affairs, where the
originating IP addresses of spam-senders are changing dynamically,�
said Amir Lev, President and CTO of Commtouch. �After participating
in a massive, distributed spam attack, the zombie can go into
hibernation until the next outbreak, by which time its IP address
will already be different. So the reputation service must recognize
the spam-sending computer at the moment it becomes active on the
Internet.� Commtouch Reputation Service is based on the billions of
email messages Commtouch analyzes from all over the globe each
week. On an ongoing basis, Commtouch probes key global traffic
sources and examines email messages with its Recurrent Pattern
Detection� technology to identify spam and malware outbreaks. This
data is fed continuously into the Reputation Service database,
which is used to block unwanted email at the perimeter of the
organization. Commtouch licenses its Reputation Service � as well
as separate services for Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak
Protection � to messaging security vendors and managed service
providers. To download the white paper Commtouch Reputation
Service: Fighting in the Gray Zone, click
http://www.commtouch.com/reputation-whitepaper. About Commtouch
Commtouch Software Ltd. (Nasdaq:CTCH) is dedicated to protecting
and preserving the integrity of the world's most important
communications tool -- email. Commtouch has over 15 years of
experience developing messaging software and is a global developer
and provider of proprietary anti-spam, Zero-Hour virus protection
and IP Reputation solutions. Using core technologies including RPD
(Recurrent Pattern Detection�), the Commtouch Detection Center
analyzes billions of email messages per month to identify new spam
and malware outbreaks within minutes of their introduction into the
Internet. Integrated by more than 50 OEM partners, Commtouch
technology protects thousands of organizations, with over 50
million users in over 100 countries. Commtouch is headquartered in
Netanya, Israel, and has a subsidiary in Mountain View, CA. For
more information, see: www.commtouch.com, including the Commtouch
online lab detailing spam statistics and charts. This press release
contains forward-looking statements, including projections about
Commtouch business, within the meaning of Section 27A of the
Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934. For example, statements in the future tense, and
statements including words such as "expect," "plan," "estimate,"
"anticipate," or "believe" are forward-looking statements. These
statements are based on information available to us at the time of
the release; we assume no obligation to update any of them. The
statements in this release are not guarantees of future performance
and actual results could differ materially from our current
expectations as a result of numerous factors, including business
conditions and growth or deterioration in the Internet market,
commerce and the general economy, both domestic as well as
international; fewer than expected new-partner relationships;
competitive factors, including pricing pressures; technological
developments, and products offered by competitors; the ability of
our OEM partners to successfully penetrate markets with products
integrated with Commtouch technology; a slower than expected
acceptance rate for our newer product offerings; availability of
qualified staff for expansion; and technological difficulties and
resource constraints encountered in developing new products, as
well as those risks described in the text of this press release and
the company's Annual Reports on Form 20-F and reports on Form 6-K,
which are available through www.sec.gov. Recurrent Pattern
Detection, RPD and Zero-Hour are trademarks, and Commtouch is a
registered trademark, of Commtouch Software Ltd. U.S. Patent No.
6,330,590 is owned by Commtouch.
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