ECONOMICS

Cloudmark announced rapid worldwide customer adoption for the Cloudmark email security suite, providing highly accurate protection against spam, phishing and malware. Cloudmark's proven email security suite consists of Cloudmark Gateway, a high-performance edge mail transfer agent (MTA), Cloudmark Authority, patented, advanced message filtering and Cloudmark Sender Intelligence, which uses real-time data from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network to create accurate, comprehensive sender profiles of good, bad and suspect senders. By leveraging real-time, highly accurate and flexible carrier-grade email security suite, many of the largest service providers in North America, Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions are improving the service they provide to their email customers while reducing their messaging infrastructures, system costs and enhancing overall energy efficiency.

Cloudmark has built a thriving global customer base by delivering messaging infrastructure and security solutions that dramatically improve the speed and accuracy of messaging threat protection for some of the largest and most demanding service provider networks and their customers. Cloudmark now protects:

-- 1.8 billion subscribers in 165 countries

-- 12 of the top North American service providers

-- 15 of the top European service providers

-- 9 of the top Japanese service providers

Fast, Intelligent and Scalable Protection for the Largest Messaging Environments

The Cloudmark email security suite protects service providers and their subscribers against all forms of current and emerging messaging threats. It empowers service providers with complete control over message handling and policy enforcement at the network edge, stopping unwanted and malicious email traffic before it impacts the messaging and storage infrastructure and subscriber inboxes. Running advanced content filtering against spam, phishing and viruses, Cloudmark Gateway can process over three million messages per hour, up to 20 times faster than competing solutions. Cloudmark Gateway's architecture dynamically scales to eliminate messaging abuse across a large number of machines at once and supports high availability and service quality at all times.

"We selected Cloudmark considering their expertise and experience in the message security industry and the high performance and flexibility level of the solutions they provide," said Sylvain Causse, director email, vocal and unified messaging of France Telecom. "We look forward to working with Cloudmark to continue providing the best messaging protection for our customers."

"Cloudmark's expertise in the message security industry has provided us with a high performance solution and the flexibility we need to ensure our customers' inboxes are secure," explained Mr. Maruta of CTC. "It forms a vital portion of our email service that supports the rapid increase in our subscriber base."

Consolidated Infrastructure; Reduced Energy Consumption for a Greener Network

The Cloudmark email security solution delivers a high performance messaging security solution with only a fraction of the processing resources of competitive solutions. It blocks and eliminates malicious email traffic before it hits the message infrastructure, preventing network overload and disruption of service. As a result, service providers need fewer servers and less energy to manage their email traffic, driving capital and operational savings while creating a greener network.

Open, Flexible Deployment; IPv6-Ready

The Cloudmark email security suite supports numerous messaging or business policy requirements by hooking into LDAP settings, databases, billing systems and other data sources. Workflow enhancements now provide even greater flexibility for managing granular policies, allowing service providers to customize policies on a per-user and per-business basis. Cloudmark Gateway's flexible framework supports third-party applications, legacy systems and other tools. The Cloudmark email security suite also now features support for IPv6 networking to flexibly meet the requirements of service providers' strategy for transitioning from their existing IPv4 networking infrastructure.

"As service providers face a deluge of email-borne threats that tax their messaging infrastructures, they continue to turn to Cloudmark to ease the cost and burden on their networks," said Kevin San Diego, vice president of product management at Cloudmark. "With Cloudmark's email security suite, our customers around the globe are recognizing the benefits of stopping threats at the network edge with real time, highly accurate protection. We look forward to continuing to build on the considerable success to help service providers worldwide increase customer satisfaction while combating messaging threats more efficiently and cost-effectively."