SUNNYVALE, Calif. & MELBOURNE, Australia — Blue Reef and Commtouch[R] (NASDAQ:CTCH) today announced that Blue Reef has licensed Commtouch’s Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour[TM] Virus Outbreak Protection services for integration into its Sonar Total Control Gateway Appliance.
Blue Reef’s Sonar Total Control Gateway is an access-control and network enforcement appliance which is sold to small and medium sized businesses and educational establishments.
"Traditional email defense technologies are dependent on analyzing the content of email messages, or forcing senders or recipients to interact with the system," said Andrew Hall, Blue Reef’s Chief Technical Officer and Director. "Commtouch’s Recurrent Pattern Detection(TM) technology has a completely different approach, identifying and blocking new spam and malware outbreaks based on their mass distribution across the Internet. So we felt it was an important tool for us to complement the other security technologies that we offer."
Blue Reef’s Sonar Total Control Gateway incorporates several other anti-spam filtering engines, including Challenge Response/recipient verification and Bayesian Analysis.
"We are very excited about working with Blue Reef," said Ido Hadari, Commtouch’s Senior Director of Sales and Business Development. "Stopping spam in real time and malware at the zero-hour is a crucial way to keep unwanted and malicious email away from Blue Reef’s customers."
About Blue Reef
Established in Melbourne, Australia, in 2002, Blue Reef is a data networking vendor specializing in role-based Access Control & Network Enforcement. The company’s core focus is aimed at helping organizations improve the way people access and use their network and network-based resources. Today Blue Reef has a large Australian and growing global customer base.
About Commtouch
Commtouch Software Ltd. (NASDAQ:CTCH) is dedicated to protecting and preserving the integrity of the world’s most important communications tool — e-mail. Commtouch has over 17 years of experience developing messaging software and is a global developer and provider of proprietary anti-spam, Zero-Hour virus protection and GlobalView[TM] Reputation Service 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 scores of 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 Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information, see: http://www.commtouch.com. The site includes the Commtouch online lab detailing spam statistics and charts.
Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD, Zero-Hour and GlobalView 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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