Commtouch's URL Filtering Enhances Email Security for Return Path's Clients, Partners

Commtouch's URL Filtering Enhances Email Security for Return Path's Clients, Partners

Commtouch's URLF detects compromised URLs in real time and prevents piracy of email platforms

MCLEAN, Virginia, February 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

    Commtouch(R) (NASDAQ: CTCH), a leading provider of Internet security technology and
cloud-based services, today announced its partnership with Return Path, the global leader
in email intelligence.

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    Commtouch's URL Filtering (URLF) is now integrated into Return Path's email
intelligence solutions for both enterprises as well as mailbox providers. Businesses rely
on Return Path to build better relationships with their customers and improve their email
ROI, while ISPs and other mailbox providers enhance network performance and drive customer
retention using Return Path. Commtouch's URLF is utilized to detect and prevent piracy of
email senders' platforms by analyzing the behavioral history of URLs and diagnosing URL
types and destinations in order to identify unusual behavior in real-time.

    By integrating Commtouch's technology, Return Path further assists their customers in
improving email ROI through certified email distribution as well as faster and more
accurate attack detections. Built to immediately detect and block potential compromises
such as hacking and the hijacking of email senders' infrastructures for spam, phishing,
and malware distribution, Commtouch's URLF delivers industry-leading URL filtering
performance by combining the broadest Web coverage with the highest accuracy of
categorization. It leverages Commtouch's unique cloud infrastructure to index hundreds of
millions of sites into 64 categories, including highly granular categorizations of dynamic
Web 2.0 environments.

    "The integration of Commtouch's URL filter benefits everyone that relies on Return
Path, from enterprises whose customers and brands we protect from fraud, to service
providers whose infrastructure we protect from unwanted and dangerous email," said Matt
Blumberg, CEO of Return Path. "The threat to accounts and email platforms is greatly
reduced and the danger of enterprises and service providers being turned into unsuspecting
spam and malware senders is minimized. With Commtouch's URLF we can significantly improve
the security of both email senders and mailbox providers. This greatly improves the inbox
experience, and increases customer satisfaction for all involved."

    "The partnership with Return Path is a major step toward containing spam while at the
same time ensuring unhindered delivery of legitimate email communication," said Shlomi
Yanai, CEO at Commtouch. "We are very pleased that Return Path has chosen Commtouch's
industry-leading URL filtering solution to enable secure email communication for service
providers and email senders alike. Return Path's trust is an important confirmation of the
benefits delivered by our solution's combination of broad Web coverage, maximum accuracy
and cloud-assisted detection."

    About Return Path

    Return Path is the worldwide leader in email intelligence. We analyze more data about
email than anyone else in the world and use that data to power products that ensure that
only emails people want and expect reach the inbox. Our industry-leading email
intelligence solutions utilize the world's most comprehensive set of data to maximize the
performance and accountability of email, build trust across the entire email ecosystem and
protect users from spam and other abuse. We help businesses build better relationships
with their customers and improve their email ROI; and we help ISPs and other mailbox
providers enhance network performance and drive customer retention. Information about
Return Path can be found at: http://www.returnpath.com.

    About Commtouch

    Commtouch(R) (NASDAQ: CTCH) is a leading provider of Internet security technology and
cloud-based services for vendors and service providers, increasing the value and
profitability of customers' solutions by protecting billions of Internet transactions on a
daily basis. With six global data centers and renowned technology, Commtouch's email, Web,
and antivirus capabilities easily integrate into customers' products and solutions,
keeping more than 350 million end users safe. To learn more, visit
http://www.commtouch.com.

       
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        Brian Briggs, Chief Financial Officer
        Commtouch
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        brian.briggs@commtouch.com

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        Zintel Public Relations
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