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green.ch, provider of
comprehensive Internet and telephony services to Swiss businesses and
consumers, has deployed the industry’s most accurate anti-spam,
anti-phishing and anti-virus solution. With its subscriber base growing to
exceed 200K mailboxes, the service provider has added Cloudmark Authority™
solutions to its Bizanga IMP edge infrastructure to ensure subscribers
receive complete protection against inbound and outbound messaging threats.

Spam currently accounts for more than 90% of all email worldwide, and
fraudulent phishing attacks that elicit subscribers’ financial information
continue to rise dramatically across Europe. Cloudmark estimates the
attacks on European banking brands alone increased almost 300% within a
span of several months in 2006. (See “As Predicted, Cloudmark Sees Dramatic
Rise in Phishing Attacks on European Banks,” December 18, 2006.) To combat
these threats that jeopardize subscriber privacy, green.ch has decided to
further enhance its Bizanga edge messaging security solution by deploying
Cloudmark Authority. Cloudmark Authority is able to stop highly targeted
and transient phishing attacks much more quickly than traditional
solutions. Unlike traditional solutions that rely on static rules or
volume pattern recognition techniques, Cloudmark uses intelligent message
fingerprinting and real time updates from the world’s largest threat
detection network to identify existing and emerging spam, phishing, and
viruses.

After evaluating Cloudmark’s performance in rigorous trials, the service
provider elected to roll out the Authority solution and quickly realized
both higher filtering accuracy and resource savings. Beni Frei, CTO at
green.ch, says, “After implementing Cloudmark, we noticed a significant
reduction in abusive messages impacting our subscribers and mail
infrastructure. We’re impressed both by Cloudmark’s accuracy and the
inherent resource efficiency of their solution.”

Facing a massive service problem from targeted attacks on its e-mail
infrastructure, green.ch had previously installed Bizanga IMP clusters to
secure and manage its inbound and outbound e-mail traffic. “Bizanga has
provided us with the tool to continue our leadership in e-mail services to
the Swiss market,” Beni Frei notes. Because of this initial deployment,
green.ch lowered its total cost of ownership (TCO), boosted its service
uptime and received a positive return on investment (ROI) in less than a
year. The installed Bizanga infrastructure made it possible to deploy
Cloudmark within minutes, immediately enhancing green.ch’s services to its
customers.

Bizanga’s unique flexibility and scalability allowed green.ch to instantly
add Cloudmark and other best-of-breed messaging applications without
changing its messaging architecture. VP Sales EMEA of Bizanga, Serge Dugas,
says, “The speed and efficiency of the test and roll-out prove that
green.ch can provide immediate solutions to any of its messaging problems
using its Bizanga installation. By further using the workflow policies of
the IMP, green.ch has the flexibility to react to any requirements posed by
its customers and the market.”

Cloudmark VP of Sales EMEA Paul Averill says green.ch’s commitment to
providing maximum privacy and security to their subscribers presents a
strong competitive advantage. “green.ch continues to rapidly attract new
customers and keep existing customers loyal by offering enhanced mail
services,” says Averill. “With the current volume of spam representing a
major annoyance, and phishing posing real financial threats, green.ch is
taking the lead among Swiss providers in protecting its customer base.”

About Cloudmark Authority™

Repeatedly proven in service provider trials as the industry’s most
accurate and efficient messaging anti-abuse solution, Cloudmark Authority
uniquely leverages intelligent message fingerprinting and the world’s
largest threat detection network to block spam, phishing, viruses, and
mutated threats significantly faster than rules or heuristics-based legacy
solutions. Where legacy solutions may require witnessing a sufficient
volume of abuse to begin blocking, Authority can act as soon as a threat,
even a highly targeted phishing attack, has been identified by and
corroborated by the Cloudmark Global Threat Network and Trust Evaluation
System. Once an abusive message has been fingerprinted, any mutation of
this threat will be blocked in real time. This early detection is critical
in stopping polymorphic and advanced virus attacks from causing widespread
damage.

In addition, Authority was architected for service provider environments
that demand efficient processing of large volumes of messages. Unlike
traditional solutions that use processing-intensive rule sets, Authority
performs scanning of messages for all forms of abuse using an in-memory
cache of verified fingerprints that is updated every minute. Cloudmark’s
approach enables wire-speed processing while only utilizing one-tenth of
the system resources of traditional rules-based solutions while combining
anti-spam, anti-phishing and anti-virus protection on a single platform to
maximize efficiency.

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