Key Features and Benefits

Complete Messaging Security for Mobile Network Operators

The Cloudmark Security Platform provides real-time visibility and control of the messaging threats and trends in mobile networks, enabling proactive protection against all categories of mobile messaging abuse and threats originating from internal or external networks. Mobile operators are able to rapidly deploy advanced messaging security policies that block unwanted messaging traffic, before it has a chance impact the network or subscribers. Cloudmark solutions are built on over 12 years of experience gained by protecting more than 2 billion subscribers worldwide. Carrier-class scalability and reliability, along with superior deployment flexibility enable the Cloudmark Security Platform to protect and grow with any size network environment.

Most Flexible Messaging Security

Unlike competing solutions that rely on a static set of policy options, The Cloudmark Security Platform allows a nearly unlimited set of logic implementations to be mapped into real-world security policies. Mobile operators can choose to exercise broad or granular messaging controls, offer revenue-generating subscriber services, or deploy revenue-assurance capabilities. Cloudmark Security Platform policy options include:

• Reputation to track and control the behavior of subscribers and network sources
• Integration with Subscriber Databases for individual subscriber preference settings
• Total visibility into network traffic and messaging trends
• Analysis of attack data, including content and sender details
• Detection and control of malicious or malformed messages
• Ability to control and restrict traffic based on content as well as static or dynamic reputation

Granular Message Filtering and Analysis

The Cloudmark Security Platform scans message content in detail, allowing operators to implement security actions at a granular level. Operators can control messaging based on protocol, content and volume patterns over time. For example, administrators can define a policy to throttle or block abusive senders from inside their network and from partner networks, with optional logging of message meta-data or contents for later review. Protocol controls can also be used to monitor and enforce usage policies for value-added service providers and to stop abuse of bulk-sender rights. Alerts can be set to notify administrators based on specific combinations of protocol attributes. Operators can also block messages or alert administrators based on keywords, dictionaries, regular expressions and even specific message elements.

Fastest, Most Accurate Messaging Security

The Cloudmark Security Platform provides the broadest visibility into ongoing messaging attacks with instant insight into global threats and spam. Patented and patent-pending security algorithms, and compatibility with the widest array of third-party policy enforcement points enable Cloudmark to deliver the fastest and most accurate messaging security solution in the industry.

Easiest, Most Cost-Effective Deployment

The Cloudmark Security Platform integrates easily with existing messaging infrastructure and subscriber preference systems, allowing the fastest and most transparent deployment of complete messaging security. Many competing solutions require extensive and time-consuming replacement or reworking of systems and interfaces, inflating deployment costs with hidden hardware and overhead expenses.

Automatic Protection against Mobile Threats

Real-time threat analysis from more than 2 billion sources in 165 countries enables Cloudmark to detect and mitigate all categories of mobile spam and messaging security threats, including rapidly mutating variants. The Cloudmark Global Threat Network delivers comprehensive threat updates every 60 seconds, providing up-to-the-minute spam and threat protection. Cloudmark Edge provides outbound traffic security, preventing reputation hijacking and IP address blacklisting. Even rapidly morphing SMS message attacks and zero-day malware outbreaks are quickly identified and stopped. The Cloudmark Security Platform enables operators to combat ever-growing mobile messaging and security threats as they occur, without any service interruption or manual operator involvement.

Message Fingerprinting Provides Effective and Efficient Protection

Cloudmark has developed a set of intelligent message 'fingerprinting' algorithms to identify and track spam, phishing, fraud, virus and other malicious attacks throughout an operator's network. Cloudmark's fingerprinting algorithms work together to identify a variety of threat attributes that might be embedded in a message. For example, they could be used to identify all mutations of a given attack, including changes in message content, images, senders and web addresses.

Real-Time Threat Analysis and Updates

The Cloudmark Global Threat Network receives real-time threat reports from more than 2 billion subscribers based in 165 countries, and analyzes over 150 million spam and malware reports every month. Members of the Global Threat Network span mobile operator abuse teams, system administrators, automated spam traps and end users. New threats are added to the Cloudmark Global Threat Network within minutes of the first attack instance.

GSMA Spam Reporting Service (SRS)

To counter the worldwide rise of SMS spam, the GSMA and Cloudmark have collaborated to create the GSMA Spam Reporting Service (SRS). This global initiative enables subscribers to immediately report SMS spam and messaging abuse to their service provider. The provider automatically forwards the reported message to the GSMA SRS service where it is analyzed using Cloudmark's advanced message fingerprinting technology. Cloudmark then corroborates the data and produces an analysis of attacks within the reporting provider's network.

Future-Proof Technology

The Cloudmark Security Platform provides the high performance and scalability that operators require. Cloudmark uses highly efficient, patented and patent-pending algorithms to analyze all SMS and MMS messages in real-time with extremely high throughput. This enables efficient utilization of resources which can significantly reduce operator infrastructure requirements and related operational expenses. High scalability along with IPv6 support enables optimization of existing and future mobile network infrastructure.