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Commtouch Software Ltd. (Commtouch) is a provider of messaging and Web security solutions to a range of customers and original equipment manufacturer (OEM) distribution partners.

The Company’s messaging solutions include anti-spam, Zero-Hour anti-virus and GlobalView Mail Reputation solutions, and its Web security solution, GlobalView URL filtering. Commtouch offers its solutions to network and security vendors offering content security gateways, unified threat management solutions, network routers and appliances, anti-virus solutions and to service providers, such as software-as-a-service vendors, Web hosting providers and Internet service providers. Commtouch’s messaging security offerings includes its Recurrent Pattern Detection (RPD) technology, which analyzes messages associated with mass email outbreaks and directs the blocking of such emails, without the need to analyze individual messages. The Company’s uniform resource locator (URL) filtering solutions includes its in the cloud infrastructure, which analyzes feeds from worldwide sources pertaining to URLs, and provides a ranking of the URLs tailored to the needs of each customer.

The Company offers a Software Development Kit (SDK) consisting of multiple components, which is built on its RPD technology, each different component enables third-party vendors to integrate a Company offering. Two components, known as ctasd and ctengine, represent alternative methods of enabling third-party vendors to integrate the Commtouch anti-spam solution into their existing offerings. Both ctengine and ctasd provide these manufacturers or service providers with spam identification and spam classification services from the Commtouch Detection Centers. The SDK communicates with a remote Detection Center, receiving results to queries about suspicious messages and acting according to set policies on the customer side. These same two components also enable integration of the Company’s Zero-Hour virus outbreak protection. A third component of the SDK, ctipd, enables integration of the Company’s GlobalView Mail Reputation Service. This service is integrated into a device that sits at the perimeter of the organization deciding, which email traffic to allow to enter the organization, and which to block. Commtouch has developed plug-ins, milters and a connector to enable hosting and service providers to access these Commtouch services in connection with their existing messaging products.

The Company offers an enterprise anti-spam and Zero-Hour virus outbreak detection solution, consisting of both a software element, or the Enterprise Gateway, and a service component, or a Commtouch Detection Center. At the Enterprise Gateway, messages are filtered at the customer organization’s entry point, before being distributed to recipients, with user-level controls and spam and virus detection services from the Detection Center. The Detection Center detects new spam and virus attacks, when they are launched and distributed over the Internet, and communicates the detection results to the Enterprise Gateways.

The Company competes with Symantec, TrendMicro, McAfee, Cisco, Cloudmark, Mailshell, Mail-Filters, F-Secure, VirusBuster, WebSense, IBM, BrightCloud, RuleSpace, Puresight and Symantec Corp.

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