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Outbound spam? Survey says – Service Providers are looking for a solution

July 9th, 2010 by Eyal Orgil | Category: Data & Research, Outbound Spam | View Comments

Recently, our service provider customers have become increasingly vocal about the problem of outbound spam, the spam generated within their own networks. We recently sponsored a survey with Osterman Research asking Web hosting companies, ISPs, and email managed service providers how they manage outbound spam.
As you can see from our beautiful chart – service providers [...]

Survey Says – Outbound Spam IS Your Problem

July 7th, 2010 by Eyal Orgil | Category: Data & Research, Outbound Spam | View Comments

Zombies, compromised accounts, and malicious users are just some of the friendly neighborhood spammers on service providers’ networks. Every piece of spam going in AND getting out is your problem, long before it becomes someone else’s.  Commtouch recently commissioned a survey by Osterman Research to determine the state of the industry with regard to outbound [...]

A Busy and Productive Q1’2010 for Commtouch

Commtouch has just wrapped up a very busy first quarter of 2010, in which our Business Development team participated in five major industry events and we announced two new products.
Starting in mid-February, the Americas team attended the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) event in San Francisco. The week following MAWWG, the team set up a [...]

Meet Commtouch at These Upcoming Events

February 16th, 2010 by Eyal Orgil | Category: Security Conferences | View Comments

Over the next several months, Commtouch will be visiting and taking part in a number of industry conferences and exhibitions. If you’re interested in learning about Commtouch’s advanced web and messaging security technologies for the first time, or want to catch up and find out what’s new with our solutions, we’d like to invite you [...]

Webcast Provides Insight Into Web Security Threats in 2010

December 15th, 2009 by Eyal Orgil | Category: Commtouch Partners, Web Security | View Comments

Commtouch Security Alliance partners Sunbelt Software, RSA, the Security Division of EMC, and Commtouch held an informative webcast this past Thursday discussing the latest in web security threats. The webcast, entitled “Stormy Web Ahead: A Forecast of Web Security Threats in 2010,” provided essential information needed to understand the web security threats that organizations and [...]

Reducing costs and lowering overhead highlighted Commtouch’s session at the cPanel conference

October 22nd, 2009 by Eyal Orgil | Category: Security Conferences | View Comments

Earlier this month Commtouch participated in the cPanel Conference in Houston, Texas. This annual event, now in its 4th year, brings together a wide group of attendees, from Linux engineers to company executives. The three day event offers hosting providers the opportunity to meet with leading cPanel partners and industry gurus to learn how to [...]

A hosting operation manager’s challenging week with open source messaging security software

September 30th, 2009 by Eyal Orgil | Category: Email Security | View Comments

In last week’s blog post, I discussed how open source messaging security solutions are not really “free,” as many would believe. These solutions have associated operational, capital and productivity costs that are often overlooked and in the end, might even cost you much more than a good commercial solution.
Have a look at our short video [...]

How much is your “free” open source messaging security solution really costing you?

September 24th, 2009 by Eyal Orgil | Category: Email Security | View Comments

Hosting providers select open source over commercial solutions as they’re free. But are they really free?  Yes, the download is free, but how about managing and supporting the system. Is that free? And if the software isn’t doing what it’s supposed to do, aren’t there costs associated with that?
Ok, here’s the answer. Yes, there are [...]