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International Data Corporation
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| Commtouch Reputation Service: Fighting in the Gray
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"There is an immediate market need for
accurate, trustworthy reputation services, in order to block the rising
tide of spam and email-borne viruses flooding enterprises and service
providers. There are high barriers to entry for any company that wishes
to offer effective reputation services. These include deep knowledge of
email security, and access to vast historical and real-time information
about global email traffic. An offering such as Commtouch's Reputation
Service can enable organizations to eliminate the vast majority of
unwanted traffic at the perimeter, providing significant savings in
bandwidth and IT resources." |
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Dan
Yachin,
Research Director for EMEA Emerging Technologies, IDC |
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| IDC
Study, "Zero-Hour Virus Protection: Defending Against the Unknown"
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"As their development cycles average
about 10 hours, signatures developed against new, rapidly propagating
attacks can only slow an outbreak but cannot prevent the mass infection
in the first hours. Emerging technologies such as Commtouch's Zero-Hour
Virus Protection could have an important role in mitigating those
risks." |
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Ferris Research |
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October 24th,
2005, Richi Jennings, email security practice lead at Ferris, about
Commtouch’s Zero Hour Virus Protection technology:
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"We see a great deal of potential in
technologies such as Commtouch RPD, which uses recurrent pattern
analysis to track email senders' behavior and reputation. This approach
is inherently automatic, and independent of full content analysis. It
is designed to detect threats in their early stages."
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September 27th,
2005, Commtouch Update - By David Ferris, President and Senior Analyst:
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"Commtouch says it's doing well among
OEMs. We find this believable. It trots out an impressive list of OEM
clients … , Overall, we get the impression of a firm that's
concentrating on its strengths, and that's on its way to enjoying
greater stability than it's had over the last few years"
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Osterman Research |
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| Survey of IT
Managers of Leading Organizations: Early-hour Virus Protection is a Key
Messaging Problem |
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"More than three out of four messaging
decision-makers consider zero-hour virus protection to be important or
extremely important. When it comes to virus protection, enterprise
customers look for best-of-breed solutions, and they are willing to go
across the street to get them." |
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Articles by Commtouch experts,
published in Virus Bulletin magazine: © Copyright 2005 Virus
Bulletin Ltd. |
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| October 2007, White Paper presented at VB 2007
conference: "The Marriage of Spam and Malware: Implications for SMTP
Malware Defence" |
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Once considered two distinct entities, spam and
email-borne malware are becoming increasingly similar. Both take
advantage of email as a primary means of mass-distribution, and both
use botnets to launch outbreaks and evade detection. As attacks
continue to get bigger, faster and more severe, the industry must
reassess the strategy of defending against each type of threat
individually. |
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| Containing
Spam – The Local Challenge |
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"The escalating war between spammers and anti-spam
technologies has spawned multiple generations of anti-spam techniques.
Each new spam-fighting technology is invented, launched, and marketed
with great fanfare, yet eventually it is overcome by spammers and needs
to be either replaced or improved." |
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| October 2005, White paper presented in VB2005
conference: "Commercial and Non-commercial Approaches to Fighting Spam"
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An overview of trends in the spam industry e.g. the
criminalization of spam, and the dangerous spam-virus symbiosis. It
also reviews past approaches to fighting spam, and why they have
failed, vs. today's more successful anti-spam methodologies.
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| September 2005, Featured Article: "New Malware
Distribution Methods Threaten Signature-Based AV"
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In this article, we identify two new malware
distribution methods: short-span attacks and serial variant attacks. We
describe their particular distribution patterns, the development of
recent attacks, and the potential dangers they present. |
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| March 2005, Featured Article: "Virus Outbreak
Protection: Network Based Detection" |
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Timely response is the major challenge facing email
security solutions:
While today’s major outbreaks reach their peak within a few
hours the response time of security software has not improved
significantly, creating a dangerous window of vulnerability. This
article discusses the reasons for this gap and suggests an alternative
approach – preemptive mass outbreak detection.
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