Info Security Products Guide Honors Cloudmark's Founder and Chief Scientist with the "Shaping Info Security 2006" Industry Award
Vipul Ved Prakash Recognized for Leadership in Messaging Security
San Francisco, CA, October 4, 2006 – Cloudmark announced today that Info Security Products Guide, a Silicon Valley Communications publication and the world's leading publication on security-related products and technologies has honored Vipul Ved Prakash, Cloudmark's founder and chief scientist, with the Shaping Info Security 2006 Industry Award for his leadership in developing carrier-class messaging security solutions. This prestigious industry award recognizes individuals worldwide that have made the most positive impact on security in today's highly sophisticated and blended attacks environment.
Vipul Ved Prakash invented a technology and collaborative approach to messaging security that gave rise to the fastest, most accurate system deployed around the world today. The superior performance and collaborative nature of the Cloudmark methodology improves the economics of messaging security. A renowned computer scientist and leading innovator in messaging security for more than a decade, he created "Vipul's Razor" in 1998, the world's first collaborative spam filtration network that evolved into Cloudmark's suite of robust messaging security solutions. These solutions have been adopted by more than 120 million users around the globe, and are the choice of 50 leading mobile and Internet service providers, garnering international acclaim and coveted industry awards. To read more about Vipul Ved Prakash's contribution to messaging security, please visit http://www.infosecurityproductsguide.com/people/VipulVedPrakash.html.
"Behind every successful security vendor that is consistently making progress in all areas of enhancing and implementing security worldwide, there is one thing in common, and that is they all have great people creating for them." said Rick Justice, chief technology editor with Info Security Products Guide. "We are proud to honor Vipul Ved Prakash with this year's Shaping Info Security 2006 award, and to acknowledge his positive contribution to the messaging security industry all over the world."
By design a carrier-class solution built to handle the entire messaging infrastructure regardless of its girth, the Cloudmark system uses sophisticated fingerprinting algorithms to flag problematical messages, combined with a live global threat reporting network comprised of millions of users rated by a trust evaluation system. Real-time, trusted corroboration provides accurate and "unspoofable" data, and the collection, analysis, and update cycle is fully automated to ensure the fastest possible response time. Corroborated fingerprints that identify spam, phishing and virus attacks are updated instantaneously and distributed to the worldwide network every 60 seconds, stopping an attack within moments of first sighting within the network. Cloudmark achieves an extremely high accuracy rate with few to no false positives. New advancements, driven by Ved Prakash's constant communication with customers, focus specifically on service provider challenges because they carry the economic impact of messaging abuse and, increasingly in subscribers' minds, the responsibility.
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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.