Cloudmark Enters the Malaysian market

Cloudmark Security Platform™ delivers protection against messaging abuse

Kuala Lumpur, 30 September, 2013 - Cloudmark, Inc., the global leader in messaging threat protection for communication service providers, has revealed they are entering the Malaysian market to provide messaging security solutions for the country’s carrier market. Malaysia is the final country among three other Southeast Asian countries, which are the Philippines, Singapore and Indonesia, where Cloudmark establishes its network.

The rate at which consumers receive and send emails and text messages is increasing every minute, providing spammers an opportunity to take advantage of the mobile/internet network. Research compiled from Cloudmark’s global threat database reveals that 62% of all emails sent from Malaysia were flagged as spam this year alone, with the majority going to the US, Australia, Japan, Great Britain, and Italy. This is compared with only 6.8% of emails flagged as spam in Australia. This places Malaysia as the 51st ranking country in the world for all email spam sent.

Cloudmark’s global threat database also revealed the increasing prevalence of SMS spam in Asia Pacific. Cloudmark estimates that there are around 150 million SMS spam messages sent across Malaysia monthly.

Additionally, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) has issued multiple warnings to the mobile providers to improve quality of service for both dropped calls and SMS spam due to large consumer losses to scammers. The MCMC’s active assessment of the mobile market reflects the customers and regulators’ unhappiness with mobile QoS in Malaysia.

The use of Cloudmark’s technology will help identify fraudulent activity and identify grey route traffic, helping carriers maximize revenue and increase customer satisfaction by preventing the onslaught of unwanted and potentially harmful messages on personal devices. With the rapid growth of mobile messaging in Malaysia there is a greater need to ensure that checks and systems are in place to create a secure environment and a clean network.

Chief Technology Officer for Cloudmark, Neil Cook has expressed his excitement working in the region, and hopes to provide a safer messaging environment for the Malaysian subscribers.

“We are delighted to enter the Malaysian market and are committed to providing the best technology available for the benefit of our customers. There is an increased expectation from service providers to ensure a spam free network and provide customers with real time solutions against messaging threats.”

Cloudmark’s General Manager for APAC, David Somerville, says Cloudmark recognizes the need to continue developing and expanding in the region due to population growth and the development of Asia Pacific as a technological hub.

“We are currently working with a number of tier one operators in APAC and continuing our committed expansion to the region.”

The 2012 Messaging Threat Report conducted by Cloudmark revealed that there were more than 350,000 unique unsolicited mobile spam variants in 2012, with the highest rate in December. It has also been noted that spammers have favorite category of attacks and frequently changing their messaging methods to avoid being detected. For Cloudmark's latest research, visit www.cloudmark.com/research.

Cloudmark进军马来西亚市场
Cloudmark Security PlatformTM提供反信息侵犯的保护


2013年9月30日吉隆坡讯：全球领先的邮件威胁保护通信服务提供商—Cloudmark Inc.宣布，他们已进军马来西亚市场，以便为该国的信息传送市场提供信息保安方案。马来西亚是Cloudmark继菲律宾、新加坡和印尼等三个东南亚国家之后，最新设立其网络的国家。

消费者接收和发送电子邮件和文字信息的频率每分钟都在增加中，这让垃圾邮件制造者得到了入侵流动通讯/互联网网络的机会。从 Cloudmark 的全球威胁数据库编制的研究显示，单单在今年，从马来西亚发送的所有电子邮件当中的百分之62，被标记为垃圾邮件。当中大部分邮件寄发到美国、澳洲、日本、英国和意大利。相比澳洲只有百分之6.8的电子邮件被标记为垃圾邮件。这使到马来西亚发出的垃圾邮件名列世界第 51 位。

Cloudmark的全球威胁资料库也揭露，垃圾短讯在亚洲太平洋地区有日益普遍的趋势。Cloudmark估计马来西亚全国传送的短讯垃圾每个月有大约1亿5千万则。

有鉴于大部分消费人的利益被垃圾邮件制造者侵犯，马来西亚通讯及多媒体委员会(MCMC)已向移动信息运营商发出多次警告，提高无线信号丢失和短讯垃圾的服务质量。通讯及多媒体委员会积极评估移动信息市场，反映了消费人和监管者对马来西亚的移动流媒体Qos体系不太满意。

使用 Cloudmark 的技术将有助于确定欺诈活动和确定灰色信息线路，帮助该公司大大增加收入和提高客户满意度，防止个人设备遭到不必要和潜在的有害信息冲击。随着整个亚太地区的4G 快速扩大，有更大的需要确保检查和系统已经到位，创建一个安全的环境和一个干净的网络。

Cloudmark 首席技术官，尼尔•库克(Neil Cook)对于在该地区工作表示感到兴奋，并希望能够为马来西亚消费者提供更安全的环境。

 “我们很高兴可以加入马来西亚市场，致力于为我们的客户提供可获取的最佳技术。服务提供商对于确保不受垃圾邮件干扰的网络，并为客户提供抗防信息邮件威胁的
实时解决方案，期望增高。

Cloudmark亚太区总经理大卫 • 萨默维尔(David Somerville)说，有鉴于人口增长和亚太区作为技术中心的发展，Cloudmark承认在这个地区继续发展和扩展的需要。

"我们目前正与亚太区的许多一级电信营运商合作，和继续致力于我们在这个区域的扩展。”

由Cloudmark 进行的2012 年信息威胁报告显示，在2012 年有超过 350,000个独特的任意性的移动垃圾邮件，其中12 月的比率最高。它还指出垃圾邮件制造者有最喜欢攻击的类别和频繁地更改他们的消息，以避免被检测到。欲知有关 Cloudmark 的最新研究，请登入 www.cloudmark.com/research。