Spain’s Optenet Licenses Commtouch Reputation Service for Carrier and Enterprise Email Security Offerings

SUNNYVALE, Calif. & MADRID, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optenet and Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCH) today announced that Optenet will integrate Commtouch’s GlobalView™ Mail Reputation service into Optenet’s email security offerings to landline and mobile telecom operators and enterprises.

“Our strategy of partnering with solution providers for the telecom industry is further strengthened by working with such a reputable vendor as Optenet. We are happy to be providing carrier-grade email defense solutions to Optenet’s global customer base of enterprises, ISPs and telecom operators”

“We have selected Commtouch for its extensive global coverage of email senders and ability to identify malicious and bot senders within minutes of their activation,” said Jorge Hermosillo, Optenet’s director of strategic alliances. “After significant testing, we found the GlobalView technology to be highly effective at reducing inbound undesirable email traffic.”

Commtouch’s most recent Email Threats Trend Report states that an average of 10 million zombie IP addresses are active each day, generating vast quantities of spam and malware, which clog bandwidth, waste server and storage resources, and pose security risks.

By integrating Commtouch GlobalView Mail Reputation into its software suites and hardware appliances, Optenet will provide enhanced email defense to medium and large enterprises, public entities, fixed line and mobile telecom operators and Internet Service Providers of all sizes. Mobile operators typically adopt Optenet technology as a parental control service or to help them to comply with legislation in their respective countries by blocking illegal content.

“Our strategy of partnering with solution providers for the telecom industry is further strengthened by working with such a reputable vendor as Optenet. We are happy to be providing carrier-grade email defense solutions to Optenet’s global customer base of enterprises, ISPs and telecom operators,” said Ido Hadari, Commtouch’s vice president of international business development.

About Optenet

Optenet provides intelligent, integrated content security solutions to service providers and large enterprises. Optenet’s technology protects 75 million end users worldwide, including the customers of many of the world’s leading ISPs and mobile operators, including Orange, O2 and Telefónica, as well as global enterprise organizations such as McDonalds, Daimler AG and Hilton. For more information, visit www.optenet.com.

About Commtouch

Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCH) is the source of proven messaging and web security technology for scores of security companies and service providers, founded on a unique datacenter-based approach. Commtouch’s expertise in building efficient, massive-scale security services has resulted in its patented technology being used to mitigate Internet threats for thousands of organizations and hundreds of millions of users in over 100 countries. Commtouch’s Global Detection Centers automatically analyze billions of transactions in real-time to identify new spam, malware and zombie outbreaks as they are initiated. Commtouch’s unmatched suite of security offerings – anti-spam, virus detection, reputation and zombie intelligence services – work together in a comprehensive feedback loop. Commtouch was founded in 1991, is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, and has a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif. For more information and real-time statistics and trends, see: http://www.commtouch.com and the Commtouch Café blog at http://blog.commtouch.com/cafe.

Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD, Zero-Hour and GlobalView are trademarks, and Commtouch is a registered trademark, of Commtouch Software Ltd. U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 is owned by Commtouch.