Email Authentication Implementation Summit 2005

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UNDERWRITERS

Industry Underwriters

		Epsilon Interactive (Steering Committee Member) www.epsiloninteractive.com Epsilon Interactive, is a leading provider of strategic, ROI-focused email communications solutions and marketing automation technologies. Through its combination of innovative technologies, professional services and vertical market expertise, Epsilon Interactive helps marketers acquire, grow and retain profitable customer relationships through highly relevant and personalized email communications. Epsilon Interactive (formally Bigfoot Interactive), is an operating unit of Epsilon, a leading provider of multi-channel marketing services, technologies and database solutions and has developed successful email programs for hundreds of companies, including Expedia, Northwest Airlines and The Washington Post./Newsweek Interactive. Epsilon is an Alliance Data company with principle offices in Boston, Dallas, New York, St. Louis and Washington, D.C. Epsilon Interactive is actively involved in industry associations and plays a leadership role in educating leading Fortune 2000 companies on the importance and benefits of authentication adoption and delivery optimization best practices.

		Cloudmark www.cloudmark.com Cloudmark delivers the industry's only secure messaging solution based on the collaboration and feedback of millions of trusted users, from over 160 countries. This collaborative approach forms the platform for Cloudmark's award-winning technology that provides critical protection from threats such as spam, phishing and fraud which jeopardize productivity and profitability. At the core of this collaboration is a unique technology by which Cloudmark instantly identifies the disposition of an email or message based on consensus from its millions of users. No other vendor offers the ability to continuously protect against threats while automatically adapting in real time. Without the constraints of manually-created lists, artificial research techniques or a dependency on machine-based learning, Cloudmark is able to provide its customers with zero-time responsive, highly accurate protection. By leveraging the trusted data from the world's largest, real-time spam- and fraud-fighting community, Cloudmark enables its customers to block up to 100% of spam, fraud and email threats with zero false positives.

		Digital Impact www.digitalimpact.com Digital Impact believes that the foundation for a successful e-mail-reputation system is, of course, the ability to tie a reputation to a given sender. The e-mail authentication system we are adopting today will serve as the way ISPs and recipients correlate reputation to a sender tomorrow. Digital Impact has embraced the major authentication protocols across all of our clients, and we continue to support the efforts of the AMEY to develop and innovate solutions designed to separate permission-based senders from the threats to this invaluable communication medium.

		Direct Marketing Association (Steering Committee Member) www.the-dma.org The Direct Marketing Association (www.the-dma.org) is the leading trade association for businesses and organizations interested in direct, interactive, and database marketing, which in 2004 generated more than $2.3 trillion in US sales, including $143.3 billion in catalog sales and $52.5 billion in Web-driven sales. In addition to catalogs and the Web, DMA members employ a wide variety of marketing media, including mail, e-mail, telephone, newspapers and magazines, interactive television, and radio, among others. Founded in 1917, The DMA today has more than 5,200 corporate, affiliate, and chapter members from the US and 44 other nations, including 55 companies listed on the Fortune 100. Reflecting the significant and growing role that direct marketing plays in today's advertising mix, The DMA's membership represents marketers from every business segment, including catalogers, Internet retailers, retail stores, nonprofit organizations, advertising agencies, financial services providers, book and magazine publishers, book and music clubs, industrial manufacturers, and a host of other vertical segments, as well as the service industries that support marketers.

		DoubleClick www.doubleclick.com As an industry leader and pioneer, DoubleClick works with leading marketers, publishers and agencies to manage their permission based email communications. In response to the recent spam/phishing epidemic, DoubleClick's Email Delivery Management team has been deployed around the world to ensure proper routing and configuration of customer traffic. DoubleClick was the first Email Service Provider to adopt Sender ID/SPF (http://www.espcoalition.org/081204doubleclick.php), and its dedicated team of professionals continues to drive the industry towards a solution to spam, through a combination of legislation, technology, industry self-regulation and consumer education.

		Email Service Provider Coalition (Steering Committee Member) www.espcoalition.org The Email Service Provider Coalition (ESPC) was formed in 2002 to fight spam while protecting the delivery of legitimate email. The ESPC is composed of 58 members including CheetahMail, an Experian Company; Constant Contact; Digital Impact; DoubleClick; ProspectivDirect; Return Path Inc.; SKYLIST and StrongMail.

		Goodmail www.goodmailsystems.com Founded in 2003 by a team of industry veterans, Goodmail Systems has worked closely with ISPs and mailbox providers, ESPs, leading ecommerce organizations, and industry groups to develop its CertifiedEmail service. Goodmail is dedicated to bringing reliability and safety to high value email communications for the benefit of all participants in the email value chain. Its sole focus is the development, implementation, and operation of an effective email certification platform. Goodmail's executive team is respected and trusted by key thought leaders in the industry and has become a major voice in the dialog on solving the vexing problems that affect the email ecosystem.

		Habeas www.habeas.com Habeas is an independent email trust authority providing email audit, compliance and monitoring solutions to legitimate volume senders and receivers of email. Habeas ensures senders utilize industry best practices in email such as current authentication standards SPF and Sender-ID and that they plan for emerging standards such as Domain Keys.

		Harte-Hanks www.harte-hanks.com www.postfuture.com Harte-Hanks, and its Postfuture e-mail solutions business, supports all e-mail authentication regimes, either directly or through our relationship with Ironport. In addition, each client is given its own set of IP addresses - for inbound and outbound marketing, and for marketing and transactional e-mail messaging. This practice enhances white listings with Internet Service Providers and spam-filtering services. Harte-Hanks Postfuture understands the importance of reputation as an e-mail delivery imperative: We are white-listed with all major ISPs, are TRUSTe and EU certified, and are a certified reseller with Bonded Sender.

		IronPort www.ironport.com IronPort Systems is the leading email security provider for organizations ranging from small businesses to the Global 2000. The company has developed a family of email security appliances, the IronPort C-Series™, that offer breakthrough performance, unprecedented ease of use and reduced total cost of ownership. IronPort is driving new standards and providing innovative products for those faced with the monumental task of managing, protecting, and growing mission-critical email systems.

		Microsoft (Steering Committee Member) www.microsoft.com/mscorp/safety Microsoft is committed to empowering users to confidently rely upon the Internet to interact, to communicate, and to conduct business online. Achieving this goal requires a coordinated approach that includes innovative technologies, industry collaboration, user education, effective legislation, and targeted enforcement. Microsoft SmartScreen™ offers anti-spam capabilities and is integrated in MSN Hotmail, Outlook 2003-Junk Mail Filter and Microsoft Exchange Server-Intelligent Message Filter, helping to protect over 200 million users worldwide from online threats. Microsoft is proud to be working with our industry partners in the development the royalty-free, Sender ID Framework, an e-mail authentication protocol now deployed world-wide helping over to protect over 200 million users and businesses from spam and phishing.

		Release 1.0 www.release1-0.com Release 1.0 is a business unit of CNET Networks. It publishes the influential monthly technology business report, Release 1.0, sponsors PC (Platforms for Communications) Forum, the industry's premier executive gathering, and publishes a website (Release1-0.com). It is further involved in a variety of industry initiatives and activities.

		Sendmail (Steering Committee Member) www.sendmail.com Developed in 1981, Open Source Sendmail was the first program designed to transfer email from one network to another, without fail. Over twenty years later, it is still the dominant mail server on the Internet. Proven in the major production environments of the world™s largest enterprises and ISPs, Sendmail offers unmatched security and flexibility. Sendmail, Inc. was founded in 1998 to provide mission-critical Internet messaging solutions to corporations, government organizations, educational institutions and service providers. We deliver a family of fully supported commercial products that enhance, extend and complement the functionality of Open Source Sendmail. With more than 1,000 enterprise implementations worldwide, Sendmail provides our customers with unparalleled expertise, no matter how complex their messaging requirements.

		Skylist www.skylist.com Founded in 1996, SKYLIST is an email deliverability leader and top-ranked email service provider. The SKYLIST StormPost email marketing automation system, is available as both a software license and hosted (ASP) service. SKYLIST gives companies that rely on email marketing a distinct competitive advantage by enabling them to efficiently deliver highly-targeted, optimized, and measurable email campaigns to their audiences.

		Symantec (Steering Committee Member) www.symantec.com Symantec is the global leader in information security providing a broad range of software, appliances and services designed to help individuals, small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises secure and manage their IT infrastructure. Symantec currently uses SPF technology in its Symantec Mail Security 8200 appliances. Symantec plans to incorporate email authentication technology into its Symantec Reputation Service to enable more granular domain-based reputation.

		Tumbleweed www.tumbleweed.com Tumbleweed provides security solutions for email protection, file transfers, and identity validation that allow organizations to safely conduct business over the Internet. Tumbleweed's MailGate email security product suite provides protection against spam, viruses, and other email attacks, and enables policy-based message filtering, encryption, and routing. Tumbleweed's email security products support the leading email authentication standards, including SPF, Sender ID, TLS, and S/MIME. Tumbleweed is also actively working with the rest of the industry to define and implement next generation encryption-based email authentication standards. Tumbleweed was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Redwood City, Calif.

Supporting Underwriters

		Association for Competitive Technology www.actonline.org The Association for Competitive Technology (ACT) is an international education and advocacy group for the information technology industry. Focusing on the interests of small and medium-sized firms, ACT advocates for a �Healthy Tech Environment� that promotes innovation, competition and investment. ACT represents nearly 3000 information technology firms and e-businesses from around the world.

		Anti-Phishing Working Group www.anti-phishing.org The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is focused on eliminating the problem of phishing and email spoofing attacks, by developing and sharing information about the problem, and promoting the visibility and adoption of industry solutions. Membership in the group is open to qualified financial institutions, corporations, law enforcement agencies, public policy groups and solution vendors.

		Barracuda Networks www.barracudanetworks.com Barracuda Networks supports Sender ID for email authentication in the full Barracuda Spam Firewall line. When Sender ID is enabled, the Barracuda Spam Firewall checks the email's MX records to make sure it is coming from the domain listed in the "from" portion of the message. This prevents spoofing or phishing attacks.

		CipherTrust www.ciphertrust.com CipherTrust, Inc. is the leader in messaging security. Recognized by IDC as the market leader, the Company's award-winning IronMail appliance protects the messaging systems of more enterprise e-mail users than any other solution, including more than 30 percent of the Fortune 100. CipherTrust pioneered messaging security by uniquely combining the five critical e-mail security components of spam and fraud prevention, virus and worm protection, policy and content compliance, e-mail privacy, and intrusion prevention into a single easy to deploy and manage platform.

		Cisco www.cisco.com Cisco Systems, Inc. is the worldwide leader in networking for the Internet. Today, networks are an essential part of business, education, government and home communications, and Cisco Internet Protocol-based (IP) networking solutions are the foundation of these networks. Cisco hardware, software, and service offerings are used to create Internet solutions that allow individuals, companies, and countries to increase productivity, improve customer satisfaction and strengthen competitive advantage.

		CNET Networks www.cnetnetworks.com CNET Networks, Inc. is a worldwide media company and creator of content environments for the interactive age. CNET Networks takes pride in being "a different kind of media company," creating richer, deeper interactive experiences by combining the wisdom and passion of users, marketers, and its own expert editors. CNET Networks operates a portfolio of well-known brands that reach engaged, targeted audiences in multiple content categories. We operate industry leading Web sites, each with its own distinct brand, that deliver rich, authentic content experiences for both users and marketers.

		Go Daddy www.godaddy.com Go Daddy's Email and DNS systems - servicing millions of customers - support email authentication checks and authentication record management. Authentication checks (SPF) are performed on every incoming email, while our DNS system enables smaller businesses to publish accurate SPF records using a simple wizard. Go Daddy has also published our own SPF records to protect corporate communications.

		Internet Identity www.internetidentity.com Internet Identity provides the key information necessary to make e-mail authentication fully effective for stopping phishing and fraud: verification that a domain is controlled by a known, trusted entity. Additionally, our deactivation service quickly eliminates threats posed by fraud domains and websites that abuse our clients' brands.

		Mail Frontier www.mailfrontier.com MailFrontier is a leading provider of email security solutions that stop unwanted email by protecting enterprises from the growing number of dangerous and costly email threats while giving them the ability to anticipate and stop new threats as they emerge. MailFrontier offers a comprehensive defense against all known email threats, including spam, viruses, phishing, blended threats and other attacks, such as directory harvest attacks. Founded in 2002, MailFrontier is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.

		MarkMonitor www.markmonitor.com MarkMonitor is the leading provider of Corporate Identity Management and Protection services for Global 2000 corporations. MarkMonitor delivers an integrated suite of services for protecting corporate brand, trademark and online intellectual property. By uniquely providing proactive and responsive fraud detection, protection and resolution services we help corporations fight identity theft and brand misappropriation.

		Message Level www.messagelevel.com As a supporter of IP based authentication efforts and a leading innovator of advanced email authentication solutions, Message Level is committed to using strong authentication to create Commercial Grade Email. By empowering organizations with the maximum level of control and real-time data possible and by placing responsibility for the authentication decision squarely with purported senders, Message Level is creating a liability-free, secure, data-rich, and auditable email channel between businesses, ISP�s, and consumers.

		OmniTI www.omniti.com OmniTI is a leader in email infrastructure solutions for corporate enterprises and service providers, recognized as the premier software solution addressing email security, management and deliverability issues. OmniTI solutions include Ecelerity® email application server, our EDGE email security appliances for carrier class, corporate and SMB requirements and expert professional services.

		OpenGroup www.opengroup.org The Open Group is a vendor-neutral and technology-neutral consortium, which drives the creation of Boundaryless Information Flow™ that will enable access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability.

		Piper Software www.pipersoftware.com Piper is the email compatibility and deliverability expert that enables marketers and Email Service Providers to maintain positive ISP relations and increase campaign ROI. Piper's EmailAdvisor system provides critical information about email client compatibility and email delivery results, to ensure that marketing and transactional messages are delivered as intended to recipients' inboxes.

		Port25 www.port25.com Port25 provides specialized email infrastructure software products that address the unique demands of customer communications and email marketing applications. PowerMTA, Port25's flagship product, provides senders with superior performance and advanced features to proactively manage their sender reputations. Port25 is an active member of the Email Service Provider Coalition (ESPC) and the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). Founded in 1999, Port25's mission is to realize the potential of email as a platform for legitimate and effective customer communications.

		Quris www.quris.com Quris (pronounced CURE-iss) is the leading provider of customer-centric email solutions for Fortune 1000 leading brands looking to create ongoing personal, and more profitable, engagements with their customers. With offices in Denver, San Francisco and Dallas, Quris has an award-winning team of strategy, analytics, creative, and technology experts. Quris offers aide to all clients in ensuring they meet all the specified requirements for SPF and Sender ID. Quris provides the necessary information to educate our clients on email authentication as well support for testing and implementation.

		Return Path www.returnpath.biz At Return Path, we help our clients to implement email authentication protocols for their email programs in order to allow ISPs and other receivers of email to identify and validate our clients' email. Return Path assists our clients in applying both IP and cryptographic based forms of authentication, and we ensure that the authentication method is compliant with industry standards.

		StrongMail Systems www.strongmail.com/authenticate StrongMail Systems is actively involved in the specification, implementation and promotion of standards for sender authentication. This manifests itself through the specification of protocols and best practices, implementation of standards within our products, and partnering with our customers to actively utilize the standards. StrongMail remains committed to this effort to ensure the long term value of this cost-effective medium.

		TRUSTe www.truste.org TRUSTe is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to enabling individuals and organizations to establish trusting relationships based on respect for personal identity and information in the evolving networked world. Founded in 1997, TRUSTe runs an award-winning global privacy certification and seal program. TRUSTe's mission extends standards, certification and oversight into email with Bonded Sender and wireless with the Wireless Advisory Committee.

		VeriSign www.verisign.com VeriSign operates intelligent infrastructure services that enable people and business to find, connect, secure, and transact across today�s complex, global networks. Every day, VeriSign enables over 14 billion internet interactions, 3 billion telephony interactions, and $100M of e-commerce. VeriSign also provides the services that help over 3,000 enterprises and 400,000 Web sites to operate securely, reliably, and efficiently.

		Yahoo! DomainKeys http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys Developed by Yahoo!, DomainKeys leverages public/private key cryptography to verify the sender of e-mail messages at the domain level. For companies that send transactional e-mail to consumers, the benefits of verification with DomainKeys can be profound, providing protection from fraudulent e-mails, and ultimately, brand protection. Yahoo! is providing DomainKeys royalty-free to the industry-at-large at: http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net