Web Hosting Brand Melbourne IT Selects Cloudmark Authority

E-mail subscribers are protected from messaging abuse, including spam, phishing and viruses with greater than 98 percent accuracy.

March 17, 2008 - (TopHosts News Brief) – Global leader in messaging security, Cloudmark, Inc., announced that Australia’s largest Web and application hosting company, Melbourne IT, has selected Cloudmark Authority to protect its e-mail subscribers from messaging abuse.

Melbourne IT’s Web Central has seen a dramatic reduction in the amount of e-mail-borne threats, including spam, phishing and viruses, invading customer inboxes since deploying Cloudmark Authority. Accordingly, the company is able to provide its customer base with the highest levels of e-mail protection and satisfaction. Additionally, Melbourne IT benefits from overall improved system performance and savings in infrastructure and operational costs with Cloudmark Authority.

“In Australia, there is growing public pressure on both government and service providers to clean up e-mail and stop the onslaught of unwanted and potentially dangerous messages flooding inboxes,” explained Michael West, messaging product manager of WebCentral. “We are committed to protecting our customers by using the best technology available and found that the high level of accuracy of Cloudmark Authority best met our needs and simultaneously helped us to optimize our infrastructure utilization. With Cloudmark, we help to ensure that our customers are shielded from e-mail threats and receive the messages they want in a timely fashion. We are proud to be the first provider in Australia to offer this level of service and security.”

Cloudmark Authority scans messages for all forms of abuse using an in-memory cache of verified fingerprints that is automatically updated and distributed to customers every 45 seconds, resulting in their ability to stop e-mail-borne threats with greater than 98 percent accuracy.

For more information, visit: www.ecorner.com.au.