DALLAS: Global DataGuard, the premier provider of Enterprise Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs) to large enterprises has announced an OEM partnership with Commtouch to fully integrate the company's email defense software within Global DataGuard's All-n-One Security Module (ASM) for Enterprise Unified Threat Management.

Part of the company's revolutionary family of Enterprise UTM products, the ASM solution delivers comprehensive and fully integrated "no gaps" security for small-to-medium business and small-to-medium enterprise environments, including firewall, antivirus, anti-spam, VPN, web content filter, IP reputation, and intrusion prevention systems, as well as network behavioral analysis, vulnerability management, threat management, and network access management and monitoring.

With unsolicited email, on average, comprising over 85 percent of all email messages, businesses today face bloated IT costs and rapid deterioration in the quality of service for valid traffic. This trend will continue to worsen as hundreds of thousands of zombie PCs become newly activated every day.

"Global spam levels remain consistently high, having reached 96 percent of all email at its peak in Q4 2007," stated Dean A. Trumbull, vice president and chief operating officer for Global DataGuard. "The selection of Commtouch for its superior email defense software is a continuation of our commitment to providing customers with the best, most complete architecturally-based security suite to cost-effectively meet their existing and future business requirements."

"No Gaps" Integration for seamless management, monitoring, blocking and reporting

As a holistic, centrally managed unit that can be offered with managed services or as a native implementation, the All-n-One Security Module for Enterprise UTM provides customers in the SMB/SME market with superior performance, operational ease-of-use and up to a 70 percent reduction in total cost of ownership over stand-alone security products.

Building on this foundation, the agreement with Commtouch leverages the company's expertise in multi-layer email defense and enables Global DataGuard to provide customers with uniquely integrated enterprise-class email security features, including:

• Zero-Hour Virus Outbreak Protection that proactively identifies virus outbreaks as soon as they emerge, providing proactive virus blocking that is effective and signature independent.
• RPD Enabled Anti-Spam that utilizes Recurrent Pattern Detection technology to detect and block spam automatically in the first few minutes of an outbreak. With superior accuracy, this content-agnostic anti-spam solution remains consistently effective in the face of repeated and evolving spammer attempts.
• GlobalView Mail Reputation Service that fights spam and email-borne malware at the perimeter, reducing up to 90% of incoming messages at the entry-point – before these messages enter the network. This feature optimizes traffic flow for legitimate sources, increases organizational security, improves first and second-tier detection rates and eliminates false positives.

"Global DataGuard's Enterprise UTM security suite takes a holistic, architectural approach to helping customers seamlessly integrate process, technology, service and reporting, and Commtouch's best-of-breed email security suite is a great fit with this strategy," said Avner Amram, Commtouch executive vice president. "Commtouch provides three layers of email defense: IP Reputation service, Anti-spam and Zero-Hour Malware Protection. Together, they consistently deliver the highest level of protection against all email threats."

The All-n-One Security Module for Enterprise UTM offers small business to enterprise customers the ability to unify industry-proven security applications into a single appliance, providing:

• Intelligent, adaptive information sharing and correlation of detected threats, alerts and logs with detected vulnerabilities between all security applications and appliances;
• Actionable, root-cause information and long-term context to threats, enabling early warnings of threats that other products cannot see, as well as far fewer false positives;
• An easy, instant view of prioritized security threats and the underlying data that created them; and
• The ability to maximize IT security staffing with 24/7 Security Risk Management (SRM) Managed Security Services, as well as the option to purchase the ASM solution as a native implementation.

A complete solution for complete security

Global DataGuard's ability to use detected threats and alerts with detected vulnerabilities is a key technology advantage within the security marketplace. It enables the company's Enterprise UTM products to continuously predict, adapt and respond to changing network threats, thereby providing substantially better service and far greater protection at a lower cost-of-ownership than traditional UTM solutions or stand-alone signature-based products.

Further, Global DataGuard's Enterprise UTM++ security suite and All-n-One Security Module can help organizations achieve full compliance with PCI, NERC CIP, HIPAA and SOX standards. From auditing to technology, process and policy, Global DataGuard takes a holistic approach to ensuring that customers can efficiently and cost-effectively achieve and maintain ongoing regulatory compliance within each unique vertical market.