Integrated, heuristics-based software enables mobile operators
and fixed-line service providers to offer premium service with low
cost of ownership
San Fransico, CA /Lynnfield, MA - Critical Path, Inc. (Nasdaq:
CPTH), a global leader in digital communications software and
services, and Sophos, a world leader in protecting businesses
against spam and viruses, today announced a partnership enabling
Critical Path to offer integrated heuristics-based anti-spam
software with the Critical Path Communication Platform. Critical
Path(tm) Anti-Spam Powered by Sophos(tm) PureMessage combines
Critical Path's highly scalable messaging software, which has the
lowest cost of ownership in the industry, with Sophos's
carrier-class PureMessage anti-spam technology. This all-software
solution complements Critical Path's existing anti-spam offering,
giving wireless and wireline carriers the most comprehensive
options for offering premium, revenue-generating services to their
consumer, mobile professional and small business customer
subscribers from a single integrated platform.
Critical Path Anti-Spam Powered by Sophos PureMessage enables
telecommunications operators to offer advanced protection of
subscribers' email, mobile email and MMS messages. The anti-spam
software runs in the carrier's network without requiring software
to be installed on any subscriber's desktop, laptop, mobile device
or web browser, providing subscribers with 24x7 protection
regardless of how they access the messaging services. In addition,
it automatically detects, tags, quarantines and blocks spam to
prevent unwanted messages from reaching subscribers' mailboxes and
devices, saving time, resources and bandwidth for carriers as well
as subscribers. The Critical Path Communications Platform and
Sophos's anti-spam technology are specially optimized to work
together to deliver the scalability, performance and reliability
needed for high-volume deployments. This provides a cost-effective
way for carriers to offer dramatically improved service for
subscribers.
"Protecting subscribers against the onslaught of spam has become
a crucial part of any messaging service," said Richard Jacobs,
chief technology officer at Lynnfield, MA-based Sophos, Inc.
"Sophos's highly flexible, heuristics-based approach to identifying
spam, combined with Critical Path's high performance messaging
platform, provides a tightly integrated solution that allows
carriers to protect wireless, web and desktop subscribers from a
single platform."
Featuring Sophos technology, Critical Path's Anti-Spam solution
delivers the most advanced spam detection technology in the
industry through its unique two-phased message deconstruction and
analysis process. As messages are scanned, each is decomposed into
multiple forms to expose filter-evading tactics, and to identify
the source and destination data. The message information is then
analyzed to assign a spam probability. Spam probability is
determined by evaluating the message structure, characteristics,
content, quality of sender and intended destination information,
and affiliation with current spam campaigns. The Anti-Spam engine
is updated automatically on the carrier's servers without
interruption in service to subscribers. This ensures subscribers
are protected from the latest spammer activity across their various
messaging devices and applications without the administrative
burdens of installing software or managing upgrades.
"The addition of Critical Path Anti-Spam Powered by Sophos
PureMessage to our modular platform gives carriers and service
providers powerful, highly responsive spam protection that can be
leveraged across multiple applications," said Michael Serbinis,
chief technology officer of Critical Path. "Critical Path's
integrated platform makes it easy for operators to offer a
high-value, revenue-generating service that is rapidly becoming a
requirement for mobile as well as Internet-based messaging."
Critical Path is offering the Sophos PureMessage technology on
Linux, Solaris and HP-UX server platforms. For more information,
please visit www.criticalpath.net/.
More than 100 million users in 150 countries rely on Sophos as the best protection against complex threats and data loss. Sophos is committed to providing security and data protection solutions that are simple to manage, deploy and use and that deliver the industry's lowest total cost of ownership. Sophos offers award-winning encryption, endpoint security, web, email, and network access control solutions backed by SophosLabs - a global network of threat intelligence centers. With more than two decades of experience, Sophos is regarded as a leader in security and data protection by top analyst firms and has received many industry awards.
Sophos is headquartered in Boston, US and Oxford, UK. More information is available at www.sophos.com.