Hostopia Selects Cloudmark to Protect Against Messaging Abuse
Hosted Email Provider Selects Cloudmark to Safeguard More than Four Million Customers against Spam, Phishing and Virus Attacks
San Francisco—July 19, 2010—Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging infrastructure and security solutions, today announced that Hostopia, a leading provider of hosted email and web services, has selected Cloudmark to protect its customers against messaging abuse from spam, phishing and virus attacks. With Cloudmark Authority™, combined with Cloudmark Sender Intelligence, Hostopia is able to provide its more than four million email customers with the most flexible, accurate and fastest messaging anti-abuse solution available on the market.
Hostopia, through its private label program, enables small and medium-sized businesses to establish a web presence, generate leads and increase their sales online. The organization has invested over a decade of development in its innovative hosted email platform. After experiencing rapid platform adoption, Hostopia put an initiative in place to take its already commercial grade anti-abuse solution to the next level.
“At Hostopia, we constantly strive to provide our customers with the highest quality hosted web and email services, and we found that Cloudmark Authority was the clear choice to protect our environment,” said Dirk Baghat, CTO of Hostopia. “While our previous commercial grade technology worked well to combat spam, we wanted to further advance our solution to enhance our messaging infrastructure. With Cloudmark Authority, we can achieve improved performance while delivering the most advanced protection against spam, phishing and virus attacks.”
Cloudmark Authority provides Hostopia with the industry’s fastest and most accurate protection from messaging abuse by using a combination of unique Advanced Message Fingerprinting™ and real-time threat reporting from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network™. The solution’s global network consists of trusted users in more than 190 countries. Offering the security industry’s highest level of messaging protection, Cloudmark Authority detects abuse with up to 99 percent accuracy and near-zero false positives. In addition, Cloudmark Authority with Cloudmark Sender Intelligence gives Hostopia highly accurate sender reputation data to further improve their email security. Cloudmark Sender Intelligence uses real-time data from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network to create a comprehensive sender reputation service that delivers timely and accurate reputation on good, bad and suspect senders, which further protects Hostopia’s messaging infrastructure from attacks and reduces false positives through the use of good-sender data.
“As malicious attacks continue to increase and with spam levels at an all-time high, it is more important than ever for hosting providers to offer their subscribers advanced protection against spam and malicious attacks,” said Jamie de Guerre, CTO of Cloudmark. “With Cloudmark Authority integrated into Hostopia’s existing Sendmail MTA, Hostopia is able to offer customers increased protection for messaging abuse, improve capacity and lower operations workload.”
About Hostopia
Hostopia is a leading provider of web services that enable small and medium-sized businesses to establish and maintain an Internet presence. The company’s customers are communication services providers, including telecommunication carriers, cable companies, Internet service providers, domain registrars, and web hosting service providers. Hostopia’s customers purchase their web services on a wholesale basis and resell these services under their own brands to small and medium-sized businesses. The company provides customers with the technology, infrastructure, and support services to enable them to offer web services, while saving them research and development as well as capital and operating costs typically associated with the design, development, and delivery of web services. For more information, visit www.hostopia.com.
About Cloudmark
Cloudmark builds messaging security software that protects communications service provider networks and their subscribers against the widest range of messaging threats. Only Cloudmark Security Platform™ delivers instant security and control across diverse messaging environments, enabling communications service providers to create a safe user experience, protect revenue and safeguard their brand, while streamlining infrastructure and reducing operational costs. Cloudmark's patented solutions protect more than 120 tier-one customers worldwide, including AT&T, Verizon, Swisscom, Comcast, Cox and NTT.