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'''Cloudmark, Inc''' is a [[privately held company]], [[San Francisco]]-based, providing protection against spam, viruses, phishing, and similar threats that affect [[email]].

Cloudmark claims to protect about one billion subscribers for the world's largest carrier networks, including over 75 percent of all major service providers in the United States and Japan.<ref name="Patrick Hoge">{{Cite web |url=http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/02/15/daily33.html?jst=cn_cn_lk |title=Cloudmark to buy Bizanga|author= Patrick Hoge |date=2010-02-17 |publisher=[[San Francisco Business Times]] |accessdate=2010-05-28 }}</ref>  Its client reference list includes: [[Cablevision]], [[Comcast]], [[Cox Communications]], [[EarthLink]], [[Swisscom]], [[Tele2]], [[XS4ALL]] (KPN), as well as social networkings companies [[MySpace]] <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/03/cloudmark-funding/ |title=Messaging Security Company Cloudmark Raises $23 Million From Nokia, Others |author= Robin Wauters |date=2010-03-03 |publisher=[[TechCrunch]] |accessdate=2010-05-30 }}</ref> and probably [[Facebook]] <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_48/b4205050135485.htm |title=Dear E-Mail: Die Already. Love, Facebook |author= Brad Stone |date=2010-11-18 |publisher=[[Bloomberg Businessweek]] |accessdate=2010-02-05 }}</ref>

==Company activity==
Cloudmark was founded in September 2001 by [[Vipul Ved Prakash]] and Jordan Ritter.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.09/start_pr.html |title=Spam-Haters of the World Unite! |author=[[Chris Anderson (writer)]] |date=2002-09-01 |publisher=[[Wired (magazine)]] |accessdate=2009-10-25 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.usenix.org/publications/login/2005-04/pdfs/haskins0504.pdf |title=Interview with Vipul Ved Prakash |author=Robert Haskins |date=2005-03-11 |publisher=[[USENIX]] |work=ISPadmin |accessdate=2009-10-25 }}</ref>

Cloudmark sits on the board of directors of the [[Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group]], and the steering committee of the [[Anti-Phishing Working Group]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.openpr.com/news/9744/direct-Cloudmark-Stops-Viruses-Before-They-re-Even-Named.html |title=Cloudmark Stops Viruses Before They're Even Named |author=Brenda Ropoulos  |date=2006-06-26 |work=Press release from Cloudmark, Inc |publisher=OpenPR |accessdate=2009-10-25 }}</ref>, it also teams with [[Sendmail]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://news.cnet.com/Sendmail,-Cloudmark-team-against-spam/2100-1032_3-5101065.html |title=Sendmail, Cloudmark team against spam |author=Stefanie Olsen  |date=2003-11-02 |publisher=[[CNET Networks|CNET]] |accessdate=2009-10-25 }}</ref>, Habeas<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.mobilemarketer.com/cms/news/email/560.html |title=Habeas, Cloudmark partner for certified mobile email delivery |author=Mickey Alam Khan |date=2008-02-20 |publisher=Mobile Marketer |accessdate=2009-10-25 }}</ref>, [[IBM]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/industries/telecom/partners/cloudmark.html |title=Cloudmark and IBM BladeCenter |author=Keith R Hutchinson |date=2009-05-25 |publisher=IBM Corporation |accessdate=2009-10-25 }}</ref>, ReturnPath and [[Yahoo!]]<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://directmag.com/email/news/yahoo_cloudmark_0129/ |title=Yahoo!, Cloudmark Implement Return Path Certification Scheme |author=Ken Magill |date=2008-01-29 |publisher=DIRECT |accessdate=2009-10-25 }}</ref>.

In February 2010, Cloudmark acquired Bizanga Ltd., the developer of a message processing platform.<ref name="Patrick Hoge"/>

==See also==
*[[Vipul's Razor]]
*[[Certified e-mail]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Spam filtering]]


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