Commtouch Reaches 135 OEM Partners at 2009 Year-End

Commtouch® (NASDAQ: CTCH), a leading provider of messaging and Web security technologies, announced today the signing of six new OEM partners in the fourth quarter of 2009, resulting in a total of 135 technology partners. The total number of partners that have signed deals for Web security totaled 18. During the full year 2009, a total of 29 new OEM partners chose Commtouch as their preferred messaging and/or Web security technology provider.

"2009 demonstrated our ability to continue to sign a large number of new OEM accounts, coupled with the opportunity to cross-sell our different product lines to both current and new partners,” said Gideon Mantel, Commtouch’s chief executive officer and chairman of the board. "It is a particularly noteworthy achievement that we signed 18 Web security partners by the end of 2009 with this new product line, and we have a strong pipeline moving forward.

"We are increasingly finding that our consolidated offering of messaging and Web security enables us to offer a full solution yielding significant operational, technical and financial benefits to our partners. In order to capitalize on the new opportunities we have identified, and the improvement we see in overall market conditions, we decided to expand our sales force with the intention of significantly increasing our customer base this year.”

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.

Stay abreast of the latest messaging and Web threat trends all quarter long at the Commtouch Café: http://blog.commtouch.com. For more information about enhancing security offerings with Commtouch technology, see http://www.commtouch.com or write info@commtouch.com.

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.