Commtouch® today announced that network security company DeepNines has selected its Anti-Spam and GlobalView™ URL filtering technologies for integration into DeepNines’ Secure Web Gateway products. The integration of Commtouch technology will further enable organizations to protect, control and manage Web applications and traffic.

“DeepNines is dedicated to providing the most comprehensive web security gateway product on the market, which is why Commtouch stood out as the clear choice to seamlessly integrate and provide superior performance alongside our offerings,” said Jim Binder, DeepNines’ vice president of engineering. “Our selection of Commtouch further solidifies DeepNines’ commitment to providing the most robust solutions, based on performance, ease-of-use and overall end results delivered to customers.”

Commtouch technology utilizes a unique cloud-based approach that automatically analyzes billions of Internet transactions in real-time to identify new email and web-based threats as they are initiated. By incorporating the Commtouch technologies, DeepNines customers will have a real-time, proactive anti-spam and URL filtering solution.

“We are pleased to work with DeepNines to provide the highest protection and productivity solutions to its customers,” said Avner Amram, Commtouch executive vice president and general manager of the Americas. “Commtouch’s in-the-cloud technology will help DeepNines provide their customers real-time URL filtering and anti-spam, further rounding out their secure web gateway offerings.”

DeepNines Secure Web Gateway enables organizations to easily protect, control and manage Web applications and traffic with complete in-line visibility across all ports, protocols and user identities. Secure Web Gateway integrates intrusion prevention, firewall, proxy blocking, bandwidth management, content inspection and application control into a single platform with all of these elements working together seamlessly to provide complete network protection and control.

About DeepNines

DeepNines Technologies is a leader in network security, providing real-time network defense for content and applications. Since 1999, DeepNines has provided business, education, health care and government customers with innovative network security that is affordable and easy-to-use. By inventing and patenting unified threat management technology, DeepNines' products enable unparalleled protection and control of ports, protocols, users, applications and content at firewall speed. DeepNines' gateway products leverage the power to protect, control and manage inbound and outbound Internet traffic, empowering enterprises and institutions to secure their networks deep-into-the-nines.

About Commtouch

Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCH) provides proven messaging and Web security technology to more than 100 security companies and service providers for integration into their solutions. Commtouch’s patented Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) and GlobalView™ technologies are founded on a unique cloud-based approach, and work together in a comprehensive feedback loop to protect effectively in all languages and formats. Commtouch technology automatically analyzes billions of Internet transactions in real-time in its global data centers to identify new threats as they are initiated, protecting email infrastructures and enabling safe, compliant browsing. The company’s expertise in building efficient, massive-scale security services has resulted in mitigating Internet threats for thousands of organizations and hundreds of millions of users in 190 countries. Commtouch was founded in 1991, is headquartered in Netanya, Israel, and has a subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif.

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Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD, Zero-Hour and GlobalView are trademarks, and Commtouch is a registered trademark, of Commtouch Software Ltd. U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 is owned by Commtouch.