USA.NET Selects Cloudmark® to Extend Messaging Security for More than One Million Mailboxes

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced that USA.NET has selected Cloudmark Authority® andCloudmark Sender Intelligence™ (CSI) to protect its 1,600 business customers and more than one million hosted end-user mailboxes from messaging abuse. With the Cloudmark solution, USA.NET receives the robust and high performing message filtering capabilities of Cloudmark Authority, combined with the comprehensive global sender monitoring and analysis of CSI, to provide its customers with the industry’s highest levels of protection against spam, viruses and phishing attacks.

USA.NET makes it a priority to provide maximum value to its customers and to stay ahead of malicious activity and fraudsters. Due to the rapidly evolving nature of spam, USA.NET chose to optimize information security and add enhanced layers of messaging protection for its business customers. After evaluating various vendors, USA.NET selected the Cloudmark solution because of its high accuracy, scalability and its ability to integrate with existing infrastructure and Linux servers. With the Cloudmark solution in place, USA.NET has improved its spam catch rate by more than five times, increased its message filtering speed and enhanced the overall user experience, all without increasing its existing number of back-end mail servers.

“USA.NET is dedicated to providing reliable and secure premium messaging services to our customers,” said Steve O’Brien, senior vice president of messaging at USA.NET. “By leveraging the Cloudmark solution, we saw an opportunity to improve our security and services without impacting messaging performance or requiring additional investments in hardware.”

As a carrier-grade software solution, Cloudmark Authority and Cloudmark Sender Intelligence add a vital layer of abuse protection to USA.NET’s network of business customers. Cloudmark Authority delivers the industry’s fastest and most accurate protection from spam, phishing and viruses. It uses a combination of unique Advanced Message Fingerprinting™ and real-time threat reporting from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network™. The solution’s network consists of trusted users in 190 countries around the globe. With these capabilities, Cloudmark Authority detects messaging abuse with up to 99 percent accuracy and near-zero false positives, delivering the highest level of protection against new threats, outbreaks and attacks. Together with Cloudmark Authority, CSI provides cloud-based intelligence that includes up-to-date and accurate reputation data on good, bad and suspect senders.

“For leading email hosting providers like USA.NET, it is essential to provide reliable, secure and efficient email service without cumbersome delays and costly hardware investments,” said Jamie de Guerre, chief technology officer at Cloudmark. “The Cloudmark solution proactively eliminates messaging threats before they reach the end-user mailboxes, protecting against spam, phishing and virus attacks.”

About USA.NET

USA.NET, a wholly owned subsidiary of Perimeter, is the recognized leader for Hosted Email delivering messaging, collaboration, mobility, archiving and advanced infrastructure solutions for businesses of all sizes. USA.NET's global infrastructure serves clients in over 120 countries. Cited as the "Top Player" for the hosted business email market by The Radicati Group, Inc., USA.NET is SAS 70 Type II Audited, Microsoft Gold Certified, a member of the Microsoft Technology Adoption Program for Exchange, and winner of the Microsoft Excellence Award for Exchange Hosting Solutions. For more information about USA.NET visit www.usa.net or call 800-653-0179.

About Cloudmark

Cloudmark, Inc. is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, delivering the industry’s fastest, most accurate and comprehensive real-time spam, virus and phishing protection for fixed, mobile and social networks. The Cloudmark suite of security solutions simplifies and advances the management of messaging abuse, increasing network utilization and reducing infrastructure costs. Cloudmark’s patented solutions combine Advanced Message FingerprintingTM technology based on innovative, highly efficient algorithms, a Global Threat NetworkTM consisting of trusted reporters across the globe, real-time, automated analysis of traffic and content patterns, along with security research expertise, to provide real-time security intelligence and filtering across carrier networks. Cloudmark solutions protect more than one billion subscribers for the world’s largest carrier networks, including over 75 percent of all major service providers in the United States and Japan. Cloudmark’s customers include Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, EarthLink, NEC Biglobe, NTT OCN, Swisscom, Tele2, Thus and XS4ALL (KPN), as well as leading hosting providers and global social networking companies such as MySpace. Cloudmark is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong. For more information, visit http://www.cloudmark.com.

Cloudmark and the Cloudmark logo are registered trademarks of Cloudmark, Inc. in the United States and certain other countries. All other trademarks mentioned in this document are the property of their respective owners.

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