Feature Story

By Kat Rollin

June 24, 2008 — Messaging abuse is rampant, consuming valuable network and operational resources for service providers, mobile operators, enterprises, social media networks, and users around the world. According to the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, about 85 percent of email messages seek to exploit the end user with sophisticated spam, phishing, or virus attacks. Now the problem is spreading into Short Message Service (SMS), Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), and social networking as well. As messaging abuse grows, costs and serious security risks escalate for everyone. Cloudmark and Sun offer powerful solutions that address new, evolving security threats and help minimize the destructive impact of messaging abuse.

Comprehensive Messaging Security from Cloudmark and Sun

Cloudmark is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, delivering one of the industry's fastest, most comprehensive and accurate real-time spam, phishing, and virus detection solutions. Cloudmark Authority software running on Sun platforms offers a comprehensive messaging security solution that tackles abusive messaging from email, SMS, MMS, social networks, and blogs. Cloudmark addresses evolving threats with Advanced Messaging Fingerprinting, which targets embedded threat attributes in messages. Once a fingerprint is identified, future messages with the same fingerprint are automatically blocked. Cloudmark combines Advanced Message Fingerprinting technology with feedback from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network, a network of over 600 million reporters in 190 countries, to block the latest threats within minutes. Cloudmark Gateway, a high-performance edge mail transfer agent (MTA), integrates with Cloudmark Authority for content filtering and policy enforcement at the network edge.

Better Protection and Faster Message Filtering with Sun

Over 80 percent of Cloudmark's larger customers deploy on the Solaris Operating System. Running on Sun servers, Solaris 10 OS, and Sun Java System Messaging Server software, the Cloudmark solution blocks over 98 percent of inbound and outbound messaging attacks on fixed and mobile networks in real time with near zero false positives and lower CPU utilization. Sun servers with CoolThreads technology are well suited for Cloudmark software, providing almost twice the message throughput of other hardware solutions, with much lower energy requirements. Sun x64 servers also offer industry-leading price performance, reliability, and energy efficiency for Cloudmark software.

Significant Savings

The Cloudmark and Sun solution can help you significantly reduce capital and operating expenses of message filtering. The extraordinary throughput and efficiency of the Cloudmark and Sun solution make it possible to handle the evolving and growing volume of abusive messaging threats with ease. With near perfect accuracy, the solution can help to significantly reduce the amount of abusive mail reaching inboxes, enhance user satisfaction, and reduce security risks, which in turn reduces help desk calls. Increased accuracy also decreases the number of mail servers and amount of storage required to store messages, because only valid message are processed and delivered. Cloudmark also utilizes MySQL database in the back-end to further reduce the cost of the solution.

Sun and Cloudmark

Cloudmark software helps over 100 of the worlds largest Internet service providers, mobile operators, and social networks protect more than 600 million users globally. Sun is a pioneer in highly energy-efficient, multicore, multithreaded systems, and in operating system and software innovation, to increase throughput. Together, Cloudmark and Sun offer a solution to help you cost-effectively win the war against messaging abuse.

Formerly a systems engineer for Sun, Kat Rollin now reports on partner solutions for sun.com and develops technical marketing communications for the technology industry.