Commtouch Anti-Spam Case Studies

Search site with Google

  Overview
 
Technology
 
Features
 
Deployment
 
Case Studies
  Quarterly Newsletter
 
  Zero Hour Virus Protection
 
  Free Trail Version
 
  White Papers
 
  Analyst Coverage
 
  Your cost of spam

  Real-Time Spam Outbreak
  Monitor


  FAQ

 

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
Founded by Syd Cassyd in 1946, the Academy of Television Arts & Science became both a place for serious discussion as well as a place to celebrate the television industry’s finest achievements with its annual Emmy® Awards ceremonies. The Emmy® Awards recognize excellence within various areas of the television industry and are a symbol of peer recognition from over 14,000 members of the Television Academy

About Commtouch Solution:
"Since upgrading to the latest version of Commtouch Enterprise Anti-Spam; we forgot what imaged-based spam is."

Stephen Laughlin, Director, Information Technology - Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

  Download Case Study
   
Business Layers
Business Layers is a leading provider of provisioning solutions, the cornerstone of security and identity management implementations.

About Commtouch Solution:
"Commtouch catches nearly all the spam, and hasn't required any IT administration at all since installation."

James Bopp, Business Layers - Business Layers

  Download Case Study
   
Chicago Northwest Community Hospital
Northwest Community Hospital is a nationwide Top 100 Hospital located in Chicago Illinois.

About Commtouch Solution:
"It was like night and day," said Heuman. "Our records show that Commtouch Anti-Spam 4.0 has caught upwards of 95 percent of spam coming in. Commtouch Anti-Spam 4.0 is superb."

Chris Heuman, infrastructure manager

  Download Case Study
   
Credit Union of Southern California
Founded in 1954 as Whittier Area Schools Federal Credit Union, CU SoCal is dedicated to providing members with world-class service, competitive products, and convenience.

About Commtouch Solution:
"What used to be daily complaints from users about questionable spam content are now coming in maybe once a week. We have to look at problems very infrequently. Commtouch is a way for the end user to have a better on-line experience."

Ray Rounds, VP of Information Services
   
Drexel University
Drexel University, founded in 1891, is home to nearly 15,000 undergrad and graduate students. The university offers a variety of degrees up through the doctoral level. The College of Information Science and Technology (IST) is ranked number one in the nation in information systems by U.S. News and World Report.

About Commtouch Solution:
"Within days of installation I realized, WOW!, my spam problem is solved!"

John McNamara, Systems Administrator, Drexel University

  Download Case Study
   
Emptoris, Inc.
The world leader in supply management and contract management software that enables companies to realize best value and accelerate profitable growth.

About Commtouch Solution:
"People actually got up from their desks, walked over to IT, and thanked us personally for solving the spam problem."

Frank Gullotti, Director of Information Technology

  Download Case Study
   
Emptoris, Inc.
The world leader in supply management and contract management software that enables companies to realize best value and accelerate profitable growth.

About Commtouch Solution:
"People actually got up from their desks, walked over to IT, and thanked us personally for solving the spam problem."

Frank Gullotti, Director of Information Technology

  Download Case Study
   
Hostway
More than 600,000 customers rely on Hostway to provide secure, reliable and value-rich hosting services for their Web operations. Hostway processes more than 1 million outbound messages daily. Hostway was founded in 1998 and serves 1.4M websites. Some of Hostways major clients include Sony Music, Coca Cola and Fox News.


About Commtouch Solution
“Commtouch’s Outbound Spam Protection helped Hostway identify many compromised/ phished accounts as well as “trickle spam” that we otherwise couldn’t detect because it was below our rate limits. Blocking outbound spam in real-time has prevented us from being blacklisted by any major ISPs.”

John Martis, Executive Vice President, Hostway

  Download Case Study
   
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin (HLHZ)
HLHZ is an international investment bank with offices in the US and the UK.

About Commtouch Solution:
"In a 3-4 week side-by-side comparison test with our earlier system, Commtouch only missed only 2 spam messages, while other system missed 129 spam messages."

Michael Sharp, Network Administrator

  Download Case Study
   
ITV
ITV plc is a leading UK media company, owning all of the regional Channel 3 licenses in England and Wales.

About Commtouch Solution:
"One of the key benefits of Commtouch is that it is immune to spammers' changing tactics."

Gareth Wright, CTO

  Download Case Study
   
Keesal, Young & Logan
Keesal, Young & Logan is a full-service business law firm with offices in the United States, and in Hong Kong.

About Commtouch Solution:
"…strong, intelligent and extremely precise medicine to cure our spam disease."

Justin Hectus, Director of Information

  Download Case Study
   
Mail2World
Mail2World, Inc., designs, delivers and supports an award-winning suite of carrier-class, Web-based, private-label messaging and collaboration services. With the richest feature set in the industry, Mail2World's customer base includes hundreds of reputable brands and prominent organizations from around the world, such as publicly-traded corporations, telecom carriers, mobile operators, and some of the most-recognized universities and online social portals

About Commtouch Solution:
“As part of our multi layer protection strategy, our operations team relies on Commtouch to scale automatically to quickly absorb and eliminate new spam outbreaks. Commtouch’s technology further enables us to reduce our bandwidth costs and ensure that our customers do not know when spam storms hit."

Kamil Asfour Director of IT Operations

  Download Case Study
   
MXSweep
MXSweep, founded in 2006, is a global provider of SaaS Internet Security & Compliance services including email security & encryption, email content control & compliance, email disaster recovery, email & archiving, and web & mobile security.
•  Services: Cloud-based via online SaaS provisioning and billing platform to SaaS distributors and resellers.
•  Customers: Over 3,500 SME, corporate and public sector.
•  Locations: Provide services in more than 16 countries.

About Commtouch Solution
“When we looked to expand our messaging and malware security offering, it was a no brainer to expand with Commtouch’s consolidated messaging security suite. Commtouch’s solution enables us to offer our customers enhanced protection against today’s growing threats, while we realize reduced costs and the service & support only a single-vendor can offer.”

Jeff Doyle, Director of Operations MXSweep

  Download Case Study
   
North Island Credit Union
North Island Credit Union, established in 1940, is one of the largest financial institutions in San Diego. More than 500 email users are spread over 17 branch locations in San Diego and Riverside counties.

About Commtouch Solution:
"With Commtouch Enterprise Anti-Spam Gateway, we have effectively curtailed spam, eliminating the storage burden on our Exchange server."

Russell Manaois, Network Security Administrator

  Download Case Study
   
Retalix
Retalix provides integrated enterprise-wide software solutions for the retail food industry worldwide, including supermarkets, convenience stores and restaurants.

About Commtouch Solution:
"Commtouch provides impressive protection irrespective of the language or formatting in which the spam arrives...we've had spam in pictures and various languages successfully blocked by Commtouch's solution, allowing our users to control their filtering rules easily."

Ofer Nimtsovich, CEO
   
University of Utah
Active since 1850, the University of Utah offers 75 undergraduate degree programs, more than 50 teaching majors and minors, and 96 graduate majors.

About Commtouch Solution:
"Commtouch's Anti-Spam solution does an outstanding job of detecting and blocking all forms of spam and makes it easy for a network administrator to quickly get the solution up and running without taxing human resources and requiring additional IT infrastructure."

Richard Waters, IT Systems Engineer
   
Vanguard University
Vanguard University of Southern California (VUSC), founded in 1920, is a Christian Comprehensive University of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies.

About Commtouch Solution:
"We are absolutely thrilled with the Commtouch solution – it has provided a superior level of detection with virtually no false positives."

Josh Harrison, IT Director
   
Watchguard
WatchGuard builds affordable, all-in-one network and content security solutions to provide defense in depth for corporate content, networks and the businesses they power. WatchGuard's award-winning Extensible Threat Management (XTM) network security solutions combine firewall, VPN, and security services to protect networks from spam, viruses, malware, and intrusions.

About Commtouch Solution:
“We integrated Commtouch technology within our XTM product line in 2005 to increase the protection we provide our customers in the face of growing spam volumes. With Commtouch Anti-Spam and Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Protection, our customers get exceptionally high detection rates, with almost no false positives. Our customers are extremely satisfied with the detection and the completely hands-free protection they receive.”

Eric Aarrestad VP, Marketing

  Download Case Study
   
William A. Hazel, Inc.
William A. Hazel, a premier Total Site Development Contractor, has been serving the finest builders and developers throughout Virginia for the past 45 years.

About Commtouch Solution:
"We tried it for 30 days, but were sold on it after about three!. We were thrilled to see spam-block rates of 98% the very first day."

Ken Holsopple, a Senior Network Administrator

  Download Case Study
 
Company Mission Statement
To strive for growth in our customers, suppliers and employees and to conduct business
in an intelligent and responsible manner with the best intentions at all times.

Copyright Camsoft 2007. All rights reserved. O&OE.