MCLEAN, Virginia, February 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --
Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH), a leading provider of
Internet security technology and cloud-based services, today
announced its partnership with Return Path, the global leader in
email intelligence.
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Commtouch's URL Filtering (URLF) is now integrated into Return
Path's email intelligence solutions for both enterprises as well as
mailbox providers. Businesses rely on Return Path to build better
relationships with their customers and improve their email ROI,
while ISPs and other mailbox providers enhance network performance
and drive customer retention using Return Path. Commtouch's URLF is
utilized to detect and prevent piracy of email senders' platforms
by analyzing the behavioral history of URLs and diagnosing URL
types and destinations in order to identify unusual behavior in
real-time.
By integrating Commtouch's technology, Return Path further
assists their customers in improving email ROI through certified
email distribution as well as faster and more accurate attack
detections. Built to immediately detect and block potential
compromises such as hacking and the hijacking of email senders'
infrastructures for spam, phishing, and malware distribution,
Commtouch's URLF delivers industry-leading URL filtering
performance by combining the broadest Web coverage with the highest
accuracy of categorization. It leverages Commtouch's unique cloud
infrastructure to index hundreds of millions of sites into 64
categories, including highly granular categorizations of dynamic
Web 2.0 environments.
"The integration of Commtouch's URL filter benefits everyone
that relies on Return Path, from enterprises whose customers and
brands we protect from fraud, to service providers whose
infrastructure we protect from unwanted and dangerous email," said
Matt Blumberg, CEO of Return Path.
"The threat to accounts and email platforms is greatly reduced and
the danger of enterprises and service providers being turned into
unsuspecting spam and malware senders is minimized. With
Commtouch's URLF we can significantly improve the security of both
email senders and mailbox providers. This greatly improves the
inbox experience, and increases customer satisfaction for all
involved."
"The partnership with Return Path is a major step toward
containing spam while at the same time ensuring unhindered delivery
of legitimate email communication," said Shlomi Yanai, CEO at Commtouch. "We are very
pleased that Return Path has chosen Commtouch's industry-leading
URL filtering solution to enable secure email communication for
service providers and email senders alike. Return Path's trust is
an important confirmation of the benefits delivered by our
solution's combination of broad Web coverage, maximum accuracy and
cloud-assisted detection."
About Return Path
Return Path is the worldwide leader in email intelligence. We
analyze more data about email than anyone else in the world and use
that data to power products that ensure that only emails people
want and expect reach the inbox. Our industry-leading email
intelligence solutions utilize the world's most comprehensive set
of data to maximize the performance and accountability of email,
build trust across the entire email ecosystem and protect users
from spam and other abuse. We help businesses build better
relationships with their customers and improve their email ROI; and
we help ISPs and other mailbox providers enhance network
performance and drive customer retention. Information about Return
Path can be found at: http://www.returnpath.com.
About Commtouch
Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) is a leading provider of
Internet security technology and cloud-based services for vendors
and service providers, increasing the value and profitability of
customers' solutions by protecting billions of Internet
transactions on a daily basis. With six global data centers and
renowned technology, Commtouch's email, Web, and antivirus
capabilities easily integrate into customers' products and
solutions, keeping more than 350 million end users safe. To learn
more, visit http://www.commtouch.com.
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Company Contact:
Brian Briggs, Chief Financial
Officer
Commtouch
+1-703-760-3444
brian.briggs@commtouch.com
Israel Investor
Relations Contact:
Iris Lubitch
EffectiveIR
+972-54-252-8007
Iris@EffectiveIR.co.il
U.S. Investor Contact:
Christopher Chu
Grayling
+1-646-284-9400
commtouch@grayling.com
Commtouch Media Contact:
Matthew Zintel
Zintel Public Relations
+1-281-444-1590
matthew.zintel@zintelpr.com
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