Managed Service Protects Nearly 1 Million Corporate Mailboxes
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. & BURNABY, British Columbia — Commtouch[R] (NASDAQ:CTCH), announced today that it has entered into an agreement to provide Commtouch Zero-Hour[TM] Virus Outbreak Protection to The Electric Mail Company.
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. Electric Mail partners with leading anti-virus solutions to defend against email-borne threats and ensure the continuous availability of enterprise-wide email for their managed service customers.
"Commtouch is proud to work with Electric Mail to keep its customers’ email safe from malware before traditional anti-virus signatures are available," said Commtouch Executive Vice President, Avner Avram. "With over nine years in the hosted anti-virus arena, Electric Mail knows that its ability to effectively block malware without compromising network performance gives them the edge over other managed email service providers." To date Commtouch’s Zero-Hour solution is protecting over 800,000 email accounts of Electric Mail customers.
"Electric Mail was interested in Commtouch technology because its unique solution is different from other traditional anti-virus signature based solutions. Extensive testing using our Virus Master tracking system, which compares response times between vendors, showed a definite early detection edge with Commtouch’s Zero-Hour technology and we wanted to pass this advantage on to our customers. Early detection is obviously critical to limiting the negative impacts of new virus outbreaks," said Electric Mail, CTO, John F. Boyce. "The virus detection is excellent and the tools provided by Commtouch made integration with our existing perimeter services easy and fast."
Commtouch’s Zero-Hour solution is licensed to security vendors and service providers. The signature-independent Zero-Hour solution complements traditional email virus detection technologies with proven real-time virus blocking.
About The Electric Mail Company
Electric Mail is a wholly owned subsidiary of j2 Global Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:JCOM), developer of eFax solutions. Electric Mail develops and delivers customized, hosted and secure email solutions with seamless integration into a customer’s existing systems. Serving corporations, partners and resellers since 1994, Electric Mail’s comprehensive solutions provide cost savings, enhanced features, greater functionality and increased flexibility over competing email offerings without compromising security or administrative control. For more information, visit www.electricmail.com.
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 16 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[TM]), the Commtouch Detection Center analyzes billions of email messages per week 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 hundreds of millions of 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.
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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