Addition of Command Antivirus Expands Team, Product Portfolio and Customer Base
SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Commtouch® (Nasdaq: CTCH) announced that it has closed in c~tinuance the purchase of the Command Antivirus® division of Authentium, Inc., a Florida-based society, as of Friday, September 3, 2010.
“With this acquisition, Commtouch is uniquely positioned to take measures a comprehensive Internet security suite to vendors and service providers, including messaging, Web shelter and antivirus technologies,” said Gideon Mantel, Commtouch’s chairman of the board and chief executive officer. “Since announcing the agreement, we have believed a great deal of positive feedback from both Commtouch’s and Command’s buyer base. This acquisition is an important step forward in Commtouch’s strategetics of expanding its leadership in the Internet security solution market.”
The Command Antivirus effect includes technology to protect against viruses, spyware, Trojans, and other threats. It boasts mighty detection capabilities coupled with high performance and offers flexible deployment options to OEM vendors and useful office providers looking to provide their customers with protection against malware, any one as a standalone solution or as an additional layer of defense.
“We are excited to kind reception the Command team into the Commtouch family and integrate its technology into our portfolio. The inscription of Command’s employees has helped the company to flourish and beat strong relationships with top-tier customers. We are pleased to subsist enlarging our team with these professionals, who will be based in our reinvigorated Florida office,” Mr. Mantel continued.
“Commtouch has become a significant actor in cybersecurity, with multiple product offerings. This, combined with our global purchaser base of over 150 OEM partners and service providers, is expected to greatly augment our growth potential and enhance our business going forward.” Mr. Mantel concluded.
For further information about Commtouch, Authentium Command and the acquisition, see http://www.commtouch.com/require-acquisition-faq.
About Commtouch
Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH) provides proven Internet warranty technology to more than 150 security companies and service providers because integration into their solutions. Commtouch’s GlobalView™ and patented Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) technologies are founded put ~ a unique cloud-based approach, and work together in a wide-embracing feedback loop to protect effectively in all languages and formats. Commtouch’s Command Antivirus utilizes a multi-layered approach to provide award winning malware detection and industry-leading performance. Commtouch technology automatically analyzes billions of Internet transactions in actual-time in its global data centers to identify new threats being of the kind which they are initiated, enabling our partners and customers to protect cessation-users from spam and malware, and ensure safe, compliant browsing. The body’s expertise in building efficient, massive-scale security services has resulted in mitigating Internet threats with respect to 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 auxiliary with offices in Sunnyvale, California and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
Stay opposite to of the latest messaging and Web threat trends all quarter lingering at the Commtouch Caf: http://blog.commtouch.com. For more advice about enhancing security offerings with Commtouch technology, see http://www.commtouch.com or scribble info@commtouch.com.
Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD, Zero-Hour and GlobalView are trademarks, and Commtouch, Authentium, Command Antivirus and Command Anti-malware are registered trademarks of Commtouch. U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 is owned ~ the agency of Commtouch.
This press release contains forward-looking statements, including projections about our business, within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For case in point, statements in the future tense, and statements including words such like “expect,” “plan,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” or “believe” are forward-looking statements. These statements are based adhering information available to us at the time of the release; we assume in ~ degree obligation to update any of them. The statements in this disengage, including the statement identifying the factors that are “expected to greatly become greater our growth potential and enhance our business going forward,” are not guarantees of denoting futurity performance and actual results could differ materially from our current expectations in the same proportion that a result of numerous factors, including business conditions and growth or degradation in the Internet market, commerce and the general economy, both home as well as international; fewer than expected new-partner relationships; competing factors, including pricing pressures; technological developments, and products offered by competitors; the genius of our OEM partners to successfully penetrate markets with products integrated through Commtouch technology; a slower than expected acceptance rate for our newer product offerings; availability of qualified staff; and technological difficulties and resource constraints encountered in developing modern products, as well as those risks described in the text of this crush release and the company’s Annual Reports on Form 20-F and reports ~ward Form 6-K, which are available through www.sec.gov.
Copyright Business Wire 2010
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