Commtouch Expands Into Fast-Growing Indian Market
February 28 2007 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Commtouch� (NASDAQ:CTCH) announced today four new OEM licensing
agreements for its real-time anti-spam and Zero-Hour� Virus
Outbreak Protection solutions with leading Indian secure messaging
providers. These strategic deals mark the entry of Commtouch into
one of the world�s most important technology markets. Cyberoam
Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances of Elitecore
Technologies will incorporate the Commtouch anti-spam engine,
offering integrated Internet Security Gajshield will include the
Commtouch anti-spam solution in all new Spamgaj products including:
software gateway, hardware appliance and a managed service. K7 will
integrate Commtouch anti-spam and Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak
Protection into its new desktop and corporate gateway products.
Netcore will offer Commtouch anti-spam and Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak
Protection as part of its suite of managed email security services.
�The Commtouch solution consistently shows top spam detection rates
and this is the type of best-of-breed solution Netcore insists upon
for our small and medium sized corporate customers,� said Kalpit
Jain, Business Head (Messaging & Security) of Netcore. Spam in
India has recently reached a point where it now constitutes over
92% of all email, an increase of 15% from this time last year,
according to a report of Netcore�s corporate customers. The number
of email users in India is expected to double in the next four
years, according to Ferris Research; the total number of users is
expected reach 59 million in 2010. �Commtouch�s RPD� approach is a
truly global solution to spam. Its language-agnostic technology
gives it the edge in K7�s key markets across Asia,� said Jayaraman
Kesavardhanan, CEO of K7. Gajshield�s President of Marketing Anand
Iyer remarked: �The Commtouch engine was easy to integrate, giving
us a competitive advantage of bringing new products to market
quickly. This OEM agreement shows our commitment to creating
innovative solutions which stop spam,virus, phishing and malware
before it reaches the customers� email box.� �Cyberoam has chosen
Commtouch for its advanced real-time detection and blocking
capability of spam, including image spam and phishing mails, which
is unmatched in the industry,� said Abhilash Sonwane, VP-Product
Management, Cyberoam. �With Commtouch Recurrent Pattern Detection
protecting our UTM clients from bloated image spam, the ROI can be
measured in reduced storage and bandwidth costs, and increased
productivity. �We are proud to be working with these first class
messaging security vendors in bringing Commtouch to the large and
growing Indian market,� said Ronni Zehavi, VP Business Development.
�OEMs recognize Commtouch as the mark of superior anti-spam,
Zero-Hour virus outbreak detection technology and Reputation
Services. We see this as a strong sign that India is serious about
implementing the best possible email security solution, protecting
all of the possible delivery models: desktop, gateway software,
hardware appliances and managed services.� Commtouch�s Recurrent
Pattern Detection� technology is at the heart of the company�s
real-time spam blocking and Zero-Hour virus outbreak protection
offerings. These content-agnostic solutions protect mailboxes from
viruses and spam the moment an outbreak occurs, and are successful
at defending against fresh threats, such as animated image-based
spam, or new strains of viruses. 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
spamstatistics and charts. About Cyberoam Cyberoam, a division of
Elitecore, is a leading innovator of identity-based Unified Threat
Management appliances offering a complete range of security
features, including identity-based Firewall, VPN, Gateway
Anti-Virus, Gateway Anti-Spam, Intrusion Detection and Prevention,
Content Filtering, as well as Bandwidth Management and Multiple
Link Management � all over a single platform. Cyberoam offers
complete Internet security to corporations, educational
institutions and government organizations worldwide. Cyberoam has
offices in the Newburyport, MA and India. For more information,
please visit www.cyberoam.com. About Gajshield Gajshield Infotech
Pvt. Ltd. a provider of security solutions including Network
security & Email Security for enterprise and small- to
medium-sized businesses (SMBs). GajShield's products remove the
complexity and reduce the cost of implementing and managing today's
mandatory business services - including ICSA Certified Firewall,
encryption, VPN, URL filtering, virus scanning and more -- by
delivering unprecedented levels of performance, simplicity,
functionality, and cost-efficiency in a single device. SpamGaj
Email Security solution provides effective and reliable Spam
filtering for small and large companies using multi-layered spam
filtering and analysis. You gain complete peace of mind as SpamGaj
acts as a sentinel protecting your users, network and bandwidth
from spam. The GajShield product line serves businesses of all
sizes, from small and remote branch offices to large
enterprise-wide corporations and service providers. For more
information, call 91 22 56607450 or visit www.gajshield.com or
www.spamgaj.com. About K7 K7 Computing is an information security
solutions company that protects individuals and organizations from
IT threats like viruses, malware, spyware and hacker attacks. Our
vision is to make Computing Safe and Secure while keeping it
Simple. Over the last fifteen years, our software products have
been protecting desktop and corporate users from security threats.
Today, K7�s products are installed on more than three million
systems around the world. With features like single click install
and single click upgrade, K7�s products are easy to use. For more
information about K7 Computing, see www.k7computing.com. About
Netcore Netcore Solutions, launched by Rajesh Jain in 1998, is an
enterprise solution company offering cost effective messaging and
security solutions. We believe in offering best of breed one stop
messaging and security solutions ideally suitable for large
enterprises as well as small and medium sized businesses. Over the
past 9 years Netcore has built an impressive and robust client base
across 23 Countries and in India for its messaging and security
solutions. Netcore Solutions blends innovation and vision in the
most Propitious areas to create the right solutions for emerging
markets. http://www.netcore.co.in/.
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