Cloudmark Sender Intelligence – How it works

Collect
Message Statistics from Authority installations
  • 120+ operators worldwide
  • Installations across email, mobile and SMS environments
  • Tens of billions of messages processed a day
  • Over 2 billion mailboxes protected
End User submissions and Honeypot messages
  • Tens of millions daily
Analyze
Automated analysis based on sender message pattern and content characteristics
Correlation of sending pattern with content fingerprints
Automated analysis of sender characteristics
Expert analysis of sender identity and sending behavior
Identification of spam campaign and spam message characteristics
Develop reputation and categorization for senders

Publish
Microupdate occurs every 45 seconds
Data feed update every 5 minutes
Retain data for a rolling window with a duration that is optimized for performance, with minimal impact to accuracy
Enforce
Operator-defined policies that take action based on reputation delivered by CSI
Recommended action
  • Block for poor reputation sender
  • Throttle for suspect reputation sender
  • Do not block for known mail forwarders, this is used to negate potential FP with traditional DNSBL
Remediate
Automated remediation to expedite correction of misidentified reputation
Expert analysis and in-depth investigation for questionable requests

Learn more about Cloudmark Sender Intelligence
Overview
Features and Benefits