SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, today announced that Tencent, China’s largest and widely used Internet service portal, has selected Cloudmark Authority® to protect its QQMail Web-based email service from spam, viruses and phishing attacks. Cloudmark also announced the availability of a new, localized Cloudmark Desktop plug-in for Tencent’s popular client software. This is yet another milestone in Cloudmark’s global momentum. Cloudmark opened regional offices in China in 2007 to focus on this fast-growing market.

Spam volumes in China have reached epidemic proportions and continue to increase, with recent research estimating that 70 percent of all domains used in spam have a .cn top-level domain. In a continuing effort to provide stable, secure, fast and convenient email services free of charge to QQ users, Tencent has sought to combat these messaging threats by soliciting the services of Cloudmark. According to Tencent, they also expect improvements in scanning accuracy and false positive rates, as well as a strengthening of QQMail’s brand by enhancing the overall user experience.

Cloudmark Authority is a carrier-grade software solution that delivers the industry’s fastest and most accurate spam, phishing and virus protection. Cloudmark Authority uses a unique combination of Advanced Message Fingerprinting™ and real-time threat reporting from the Cloudmark Global Threat Network™, consisting of trusted users in 190 countries around the globe. Cloudmark Authority integrates seamlessly into QQMail’s existing user feedback system for reporting messages identified as spam.

Cloudmark Authority offers industry leading accuracy, requires significantly less processing power than competitive solutions and lowers CPU requirements by up to 90 percent. Furthermore, Cloudmark Authority frees network resources, lowers storage requirements and delivers an immediate improvement in the email user experience.

“Internet service providers in China are facing an unprecedented challenge as they seek to protect their users from messaging threats,” said David Somerville, vice president and general manager of the Asia Pacific region, of Cloudmark. “Tencent’s selection of Cloudmark validates both the effectiveness of our messaging security solutions and our commitment to the Chinese market. We look forward to working with Tencent to combat spam and create a high-quality email experience for its QQMail users.”

Introducing Cloudmark Desktop™ for Tencent’s email client

Cloudmark Desktop plug-in for Tencent’s email client is the first product developed by Cloudmark that exclusively targets China’s fast-growing desktop security market. The Cloudmark Desktop plug-in is a lightweight application that will appear as a simple toolbar directly on the email client. Cloudmark Desktop empowers users to report spam simply by clicking on the "block" button on their toolbar. Once user reports are corroborated by Cloudmark’s back-end service, all users will automatically be protected – usually within minutes of the initial attack. With the Cloudmark Desktop plug-in, users will not only receive unparalleled protection from the latest email threats, but also become part of the solution.

About Cloudmark

Cloudmark, Inc. is a global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, delivering the industry’s fastest, most accurate and comprehensive real-time spam, virus and phishing protection for fixed, mobile and social networks. The Cloudmark suite of carrier-grade security solutions simplifies and advances the management of messaging abuse, increasing network utilization and reducing infrastructure costs. Cloudmark’s patented solutions combine Advanced Message Fingerprinting^TM technology based on innovative, highly efficient algorithms, a Global Threat Network™ consisting of trusted reporters across the globe, real-time, automated analysis of traffic and content patterns, along with security research expertise, to provide real-time security intelligence and filtering across carrier networks. Cloudmark solutions protect more than 850 million subscribers for the world’s largest carrier networks, including over 75 percent of all major service providers in the United States and Japan. Cloudmark’s global customers include Cablevision, Comcast, Cox Communications, EarthLink, NEC Biglobe, NTT OCN, Swisscom, Tele2, Thus and XS4ALL (KPN) as well as leading hosting providers and global social networking companies such as MySpace. Cloudmark is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco with offices in London, Tokyo, Beijing and Hong Kong. For more information, please visit http://www.cloudmark.com.