Cloudmark Technology
Cloudmark employs networked collective intelligence, a combination of Advanced Message Fingerprinting, corroborated global feedback and automated data analysis to deliver unmatched accuracy and the fastest response to new threats.
Developed by world-renowned experts in messaging security, Cloudmark’s technologies were designed with three goals in mind:
- Automatically stop current attacks, including their polymorphic variations
- Stay one step ahead of new attack vectors
- Filter large message streams with high efficiency and scalability
The Cloudmark Approach
Advanced Message Fingerprinting™
Advanced Message Fingerprinting algorithms form Cloudmark’s core intellectual property, allowing automatic detection of messaging threats. Cloudmark’s fingerprinting algorithms target different threat attributes embedded in a message. As each message arrives, these algorithms generate “fingerprints” that represent unique aspects of the message. Once a fingerprint has been determined to be associated with a verified spam, phishing or virus attack, all current and future messages containing that fingerprint will be immediately blocked. As a result, Cloudmark is able to identify mutations and variants in near real time. Learn more about Advanced Message Fingerprinting™.
Global Threat Network
For new outbreaks, Cloudmark provides extremely rapid response through its Global Threat Network, the largest and most sophisticated in the industry. With Cloudmark, threat monitoring is not limited to a single department within a company, but extended to a worldwide network of 600 million reporting sources in over 190 countries. The Global Threat Network consists of service provider abuse teams, systems administrators, honeypots and trusted users. Feedback from these reporters enables Cloudmark to block the latest threats within minutes of attack origination.
Cloudmark Service and Trust Evaluation System
All feedback by the Global Threat Network is corroborated and analyzed by Cloudmark’s Trust Evaluation System. This system tracks the reporter’s reputation and determines fingerprint classification based on the number of reports and the reporter’s reputation. Reputation or “trust” is earned over time by consistently reporting correct feedback. It preserves the integrity of reports and ensures that the system is extremely accurate. Since feedback is continuously corroborated, any inaccuracies in message classification, such as false positives or false negatives, are corrected without manual intervention. No other system offers this continuous feedback review and seamless remediation.
The Trust Evaluation System is a key component of the Cloudmark Service, which performs the backend analysis to determine whether a message is legitimate or a threat, categorizes threats by type and distributes threat intelligence to Cloudmark customers.
Cloudmark Research
The Cloudmark Research team consists of leading innovators in messaging anti-abuse. Cloudmark Research develops new fingerprinting algorithms and backend analysis processes to combat the complete range of messaging threats. To ensure optimal effectiveness of the Cloudmark solution against the latest messaging abuse, Cloudmark Research continually analyzes and predicts global messaging abuse trends.
Cloudmark Authority
Cloudmark Authority, installed at the service provider’s messaging environment, is updated every 45 seconds with new threat intelligence from the Cloudmark Service. Cloudmark Authority generates fingerprints for each incoming message and checks them against an in-memory cache of known bad fingerprints to determine whether the message should be blocked. Learn more about Cloudmark Authority.
To learn more about Cloudmark, email us at sales@cloudmark.com