London : Frost & Sullivan announced today that it is presenting its 2008 European Messaging Security Technology Innovation of the Year Award to Commtouch® Software Ltd. in recognition of its superior protection of email inboxes around the globe from unwanted and malicious email.
The company’s advanced messaging security technologies -- Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) and GlobalView™ - embody the future of messaging threat prevention. “Powered by its highly innovative service-based security infrastructure, Commtouch has helped revolutionise and advance the network security industry as a whole,” notes Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Arun Nirmal 
“Commtouch’s consistent performance and seamless display of innovations has kept its technology way ahead of the evolving tactics of spammers and malware writers. The company has established new standards in delivering high quality network protection.” Commtouch’s outbreak protection solutions provide an added layer of defense to traditional messaging and network security solutions. The Commtouch approach is based entirely on a critical evaluation of the primary distinctiveness of email-borne malware and spam, that is, their mass distribution. RPD acutely demonstrates key capabilities in performing best-in-class malicious content detection in e-mails. “Exhibiting its advanced early threat detection capabilities in the first few moments of an outbreak, the Commtouch RPD approach consistently ranks above similar anti-spam and anti-malware approaches,” explains Nirmal. “With the capability of analysing billions of e-mail messages each day in its global detection centers, Commtouch technology has been seamlessly embedded as an added layer of messaging defense by over a hundred security vendors and service providers. The unique data-center-based approach of Commtouch technology gives a low-footprint and ensures it is highly scalable, enabling it to serve large-scale and carrier-class customers.” The company delivers its outbreak protection in several offerings, each tailored as a different layer of messaging security: Anti-Spam, Zero-Hour™ Virus Outbreak Protection, GlobalView Mail Reputation, and GlobalView Zombie Intelligence Service. GlobalView technology augments the patented RPD technology with reputation values for billions of Internet Protocol addresses, enabling a broad view of the full spectrum of email senders. These two technologies work in a self-learning feedback loop that is constantly improving. The company’s RPD and GlobalView technologies have been licensed and adopted by over 100 leading security vendors and service providers who cater to millions of users dispersed across 130 countries. “With more than 80,000 security deployments among various corporate and service provider networks, Commtouch is among the elite few that can boast a comprehensive expertise and depth of product offerings in the messaging security domain,” concludes Nirmal. “Its discriminating focus on excellence and innovation has revealed new research paths for the industry, while pushing the company to new heights of success.” Frost & Sullivan’s Technology Innovation Award is bestowed upon a company (or individual) that has carried out new research, which has resulted in innovation(s) that have or are expected to bring significant contributions to the industry in terms of adoption, change, and competitive posture. This award recognises the quality and depth of a company’s research and development program as well as the vision and risk-taking that enabled it to undertake such an endeavour. Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Awards recognise companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research in order to identify best practices in the industry. NDLR : Dans le cadre de la décentralisation avec nos correspondants, certains sujets seront traités en VO pour satisfaire nos lecteurs anglophiles. Si ce principe fonctionne nous le garderons, dans le cas contraire, nous ne publierons alors que des articles en langue française.
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