TMCnews Featured Article

In effort to protect its business customers and hosted end-user mailboxes from messaging abuse, USA.NET, an e-mail hosting provider, has deployed Cloudmark, Inc.’s solutions, namely Cloudmark Authority and Cloudmark Sender Intelligence – or CSI.

 

By leveraging Cloudmark’s (News - Alert) solutions, USA.NET was able to protect its customers against viruses, spam, and phishing. In addition, USA.NET could - improve its spam catch rate by more than five times, increase message filtering speed, and provide enhanced overall user experience - all without increasing the number of existing back-end mail servers.

 

In a press release, Steve O’Brien, senior vice president of messaging at USA.NET (News - Alert), said that the company focuses on offering customers with reliable and secure premium messaging services. By utilizing the Cloudmark solutions, the company saw an opportunity to improve its security and services without impacting messaging performance or requiring additional investments in hardware.

 

According to Cloudmark, its Cloudmark Authority is a carrier-grade software solution that provides customers with accurate protection from spam, phishing and viruses by utilizing a combination of unique ‘Advanced Message Fingerprinting’ and real-time threat reporting from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network.

 

Cloudmark’s another carrier-grade software solution, Cloudmark Sender Intelligence (CSI), also adds a vital layer of abuse protection to USA.NET’s network of business customers. The CSI along with Cloudmark Authority provides cloud-based intelligence, which encompasses up-to-date and accurate reputation data on good, bad and suspect senders.

 

In addition, Cloudmark Authority’s network consists of trusted users spanning 190 countries worldwide. According to officials with Cloudmark, the Cloudmark Authority is capable of detecting messaging abuse with up to 99 percent accuracy and near-zero false positives, thereby providing high-level of protection against new threats, outbreaks and attacks.

 

According to USA.NET, the company has 1,600 business customers and over one million hosted end-user mailboxes. It chose Cloudmark solutions to optimize information security and add enhanced layers of messaging protection for its business customers.

 

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