Checkbridge and Cloudmark Team Up for AntiSpam Solutions

Cloudmark® Inc. (www.checkbridge.com), the company that delivers the immune system for email and Checkbridge, the managed email filtering company, today announced a partnership to deliver advanced spam, fraud, and phishing filtering capability via hosted services to Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Europe.

As part of the alliance, Checkbridge will license Cloudmark Authority software and embed it within its Border Scout managed email filtering service for ISPs.

Checkbridge selected Cloudmark for its leading carrier-grade, scaleable ISP solution and unique filtering approach, which combines an automated and adaptive content classifier with updates from the world's largest real-time community of spam and phishing reporters.

This approach offers zero-day protection against a variety of outbreaks and is far more accurate than traditional reactive technologies such as rules, lists, heuristics and content based filters.

Clara.net, the largest ISP in Europe, is the first to offer the Border Scout service integrated with the Cloudmark Authority engine. "The main reason for Clara.net's adoption of Border Scout stems from the rigour behind the technical choices and the extent of the integration possibilities within our business," says Neil Levine, CTO, Clara.net Group.

Cloudmark Authority, embedded within Checkbridge Border Scout, allows the ISP and its client centralised control and visibility of email filtering on a global basis, without the hassle of day-to-day administration.

"Until now, despite the pressure to take on the ownership of filtering, ISPs in Europe have had neither the 'stick' through legislation nor the 'carrot' through a viable commercial application to accept the responsibility," says John Turley, managing director, Checkbridge.

"Checkbridge's decision to integrate Cloudmark Authority Engine into its Border Scout service addresses the growing customer demand for a comprehensive ISP secure email solution that is carrier-grade," says Vipul Ved Prakash, chief scientist and founder of Cloudmark.

Checkbridge was set up in 2004 to help mitigate the risk of email failure to businesses in Europe. Checkbridge's aim is simply to 'enable trusted communication'. Checkbridge achieves this by providing a fully managed spam and virus filtering service for ISPs, called Border Scout.