Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCH) today announced the expansion of its cloud infrastructure with the launch of a new detection center in Washington, DC, the Company’s fifth worldwide.

Commtouch’s Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) and Data Cloud technologies currently process more than two billion Internet transactions each week within the Company’s globally distributed detection centers to identify new messaging and Web threat outbreaks as they are initiated.

“As Web and email traffic and threats continue to increase rapidly, this new center will allow us to more efficiently and effectively serve our growing customer base,” said Yossi Maslaton, Commtouch’s vice president of network operations and customer services. “We will be better equipped to handle the growing volumes of queries and real-time information analysis in the US, and our East Coast customers will benefit from higher quality of service with less latency.”

In addition to the Washington, DC facility, Commtouch maintains two additional US facilities, one in Hong Kong and another in the United Kingdom. The detection centers have been strategically located around the globe to provide Commtouch partners and their customers with full coverage and service regardless of their geographic location. The new center will also enhance the availability and failover capabilities of the Commtouch infrastructure.

Commtouch detection centers serve the Company’s messaging and Web security solutions: Anti-Spam, Zero-Hour™ Virus Outbreak Protection, GlobalView™ Mail Reputation Service, GlobalView URL Filtering and GlobalView Zombie Intelligence Service. These offerings are integrated in an OEM model within security vendors’ products, such as unified threat management devices, managed security services, message transfer agents, and gateway and desktop software.

The global infrastructure enables Commtouch to provide superior security solutions with a distributed ‘in the cloud’ delivery method, thus providing the company’s customers access to real-time threat prevention patterns with a small local footprint. End-customers have the ability to leverage the vast processing power of Commtouch’s infrastructure, extracting and caching just the relevant updates.

About Commtouch

Commtouch® (NASDAQ:CTCH) provides proven messaging and Web security technology to more than 100 security companies and service providers for integration into their solutions. Commtouch’s patented Recurrent Pattern Detection™ (RPD™) and GlobalView™ technologies are founded on a unique cloud-based approach, and work together in a comprehensive feedback loop to protect effectively in all languages and formats. Commtouch technology automatically analyzes billions of Internet transactions in real-time in its global data centers to identify new threats as they are initiated, protecting email infrastructures and enabling safe, compliant browsing. The company’s expertise in building efficient, massive-scale security services has resulted in mitigating Internet threats for 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 subsidiary in Sunnyvale, Calif.

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Recurrent Pattern Detection, RPD, Zero-Hour and GlobalView are trademarks, and Commtouch is a registered trademark, of Commtouch Software Ltd. U.S. Patent No. 6,330,590 is owned by Commtouch.