Program Steering Committee & Program Underwriters

		Anti-Phishing Working Group   www.anti-phishing.org The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) is the global industry and law enforcement association focused on eliminating the problem of phishing and email spoofing attacks. The APWG has a membership including financial institutions, law enforcement agencies, technology vendors, consumer groups and government regulatory ministries worldwide. Through its monthly reports, research, mailing lists, conferences on ecrime and crimeware, and its fostering of broad collaborations for organizing counter-ecrime industrial policy.
		AOL   www.aol.com America Online, Inc., a division of Time Warner Inc., is a leader in interactive services. With approximately 20 million U.S. members, AOL is the nation’s leading Internet service provider. And with more than 112 million unique visitors to its network of Web properties and to the AOL service (Source: comScore Media Metrix), AOL is the second-largest online network and operates popular, industry-leading Web brands such as AIM, MapQuest, Moviefone, Netscape, ICQ, and many more.
		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.
		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   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. 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's membership represents marketers from every business segment, including catalogers, Internet retailers, retail stores, nonprofits, advertising agencies, financial services providers, book and magazine publishers, book and music clubs, industrial manufacturers, and a host of other vertical segments.
		DoubleClick Email   www.doubleclickemail.com DoubleClick Email Solutions is a recognized leader in email marketing, delivering complete and flexible email products and services to more than 400 major companies globally, including many of the world's most sophisticated marketing organizations. These companies leverage DoubleClick's world-class technology, constant innovation and unrivalled insight to achieve superior results with extremely large email marketing programs. 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 Sender and Provider Coalition   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 75 members including CheetahMail, an Experian Company; Constant Contact; Digital Impact; DoubleClick; Goodmail Systems Inc.; ProspectivDirect; Return Path Inc.; SKYLIST and StrongMail Systems Inc..
		Goodmail   www.goodmailsystems.com Goodmail Systems created the CertifiedEmail service, email certification, to provide a safe and reliable class of email for the benefit of consumers, legitimate senders and mailbox providers. Working closely with ISPs and mailbox providers, the Goodmail CertifiedEmail service offers a new class of email that will help shield consumers from spam, fraud and phishing.
		Habeas   www.habeas.com Habeas is an email trust authority that certifies, safelists and monitors the practices of legitimate email senders so their email delivery rates are enhanced Yahoo, AOL and other major ISPs and volume email receivers. The Habeas Network consists of more than 100,000 receiving mail networks in over 170 countries representing ISPs and enterprises, such as corporations, universities and government agencies, who utilize the Habeas Warranted Email program to determine what mail should be delivered to the Inbox. The Habeas Network provides enhanced delivery to over 600 million email inboxes worldwide.
		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 that offer breakthrough performance, unprecedented ease of use and reduced total cost of ownership. IronPort is driving new standards and providing technically innovative products for those faced with the monumental task of managing, protecting, and growing mission-critical email systems.
		Microsoft   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 over to protecting users from spam and phishing.
		Return Path   www.returnpath.biz Return Path provides comprehensive email deliverability tools and reputation repair services for legitimate email senders. The only holistic deliverability solution on the market, Return Path works to improve each stage of the deliverability cycle: pre-, during, and post-campaign. Services include monitoring tools, deliverability consulting, ISP relations, and complaint reduction; as well as reputation analysis and improvement with Sender Score Reputation Monitor, and email accreditation through the Bonded Sender Program. Return Path's other divisions focus on online market research, lead generation, and database hygiene.
		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.
		StrongMail Systems   www.strongmail.com/authenticate StrongMail Systems has been a champion of email authentication and other industry efforts to establish standards and restore trust to the email channel. We are actively involved in industry organizations committed to this end and support several key areas, including technical specification and testing, embedding standards within our products, integration with leading reputation services, and driving adoption to protect legitimate senders.
		Symantec   www.symantec.com Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability and integrity of their information. Symantec supports email authentication technology in its Messaging and Web Security solutions, which provide comprehensive protection with award-winning antivirus, anti-spam and content filtering technologies. These solutions are available in a variety of deployment options – appliances, software and hosted – to meet the needs of customers’ unique messaging environments.
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Industry Underwriters
		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.
		CheetahMail www.cheetahmail.com CheetahMail, an Experian Company, http://www.cheetahmail.com, a global leading online marketing solutions firm specializing in email marketing, web site analytics (SiteClarity) and advanced campaign management serves category-leading clients in a variety of industry verticals including retail, financial services, entertainment, media, B2B and travel. CheetahMail's technology and service offerings are designed for companies that want to increase their brand equity through customer retention and acquisition management.
		CipherTrust   www.ciphertrust.com CipherTrust Inc., the global market leader in messaging security, provides innovative solutions to stop inbound e-mail threats such as spam, viruses, intrusions and phishing, and protect against outbound policy and compliance violations. The Company's IronMail® gateway appliance defends against threats by combining global intelligence with local behavior analysis via its TrustedSource™ reputation system. IronMail provides integrated best-of-breed capabilities to deliver maximum availability and unmatched security, effectiveness and enterprise manageability. Recognized by IDC as the market leader, CipherTrust® protects more than one-third of the Fortune 500, and is backed by top-tier investors including Battery Ventures and Greylock Partners. For more information, visit www.ciphertrust.com.
		Cloudmark   www.cloudmark.com Cloudmark is a proven leader in messaging anti-abuse solutions for service providers, businesses and individuals. The company’s unique approach to fighting message-borne threats provides greater accuracy, increased protection, better performance, and unparalleled effectiveness in combating spam and phishing, and delivers the first line of defense against viruses.
		CA (Computer Associates)   www.ca.com CA (NYSE: CA), one of the world's largest information technology (IT) management software companies, unifies and simplifies the management of enterprise-wide IT. Founded in 1976, CA is headquartered in Islandia, N.Y., and serves customers in more than 140 countries.
		RSA Cyota Consumer Solutions   www.rsasecurity.com RSA Security Inc. offers the industry's most holistic suite of authentication and anti-fraud solutions, bringing trust to millions of user identities and the transactions that they perform. From risk-based authentication, one-time passwords and digital certificates to anti-phishing and anti-pharming solutions, RSA Security's award-winning portfolio delivers robust protection to online services and increased confidence to those who use them.
		Iconix   www.iconix.com ICONIX, Inc. is the leading innovator in trusted email identification solutions. Providing a value added identification service on top of Sender ID and DomainKeys/DKIM, including authentication support in webmail clients, the company’s visual eMail ID solution uses an icon to enable consumers to instantly identify which messages in their inbox are real, thereby enabling senders to restore trust in email communications with their customers.
		Internet Identity   www.internetidentity.com Internet Identity provides valuable information streams for stopping spam, phishing and fraud. As a leader in anti-phishing services, our data feed of confirmed Phishing URLs is a must for protecting your end users. Our proprietary Domain Threat Index, which rates the trustworthiness of domain names, provides valuable, unique input to your e-mail and web browsing filtering systems.
		Mail Frontier   www.mailfrontier.com MailFrontier is an email security company that protects organizations against inbound and outbound threats such as spam, phishing, viruses, directory harvest attacks and policy violations, provides control for content compliance, and enables consolidation of email infrastructure. The award-winning MailFrontier Gateway(TM) platform provides power without complexity to more than 1,500 enterprise customers.
		MarkMonitor   www.markmonitor.com MarkMonitor is a global leader in the fast-growing market for online corporate identity management and protection. Our solutions enable corporations and brand owners to address the significant and evolving threats made possible by the inherent openness and anonymity of the Internet, including online fraud, brand abuse, and unauthorized channels.
		MessageLevel   www.messagelevel.com Message Level is securing email for a paperless future. We are a leading solution that prevents impersonation of legitimate email addresses. By restoring trust and providing unique features like certified delivery and full message tracking, Message Level enables enterprises to shift to paperless communication without compromising security and to achieve the tremendous cost savings made possible by email.
		OmniTI   www.omniti.com OmniTI is the leader in high performance email infrastructure solutions for email service providers, publishers and marketers. Our Ecelerity® email application server is recognized as the premier software solution addressing email deliverability issues, preconfigured for ISP’s and packed with authentication, accreditation and bounce processing, Ecelerity gets email to the inbox.
		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.
		Sendmail   www.sendmail.com Sendmail provides enterprise solutions for secure, dependable and compliant messaging. The majority of the Fortune 1000 integrates Sendmail security into their email network–from the gateway to the mailbox. Sendmail software and appliance solutions protect against invalid mail, prevent malicious attacks, and optimize the messaging infrastructure.
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Supporting Underwriters
		Alt-N www.altn.com Alt-N specializes in developing secure communications software through innovation and invention meeting customers and user's requirements for protection against hackers, spammers and viruses.
		The American Association of Advertising Agencies www.aaaa.org The American Association of Advertising Agencies is the national trade association of the advertising agency business. The 1,196 member agency offices it serves in the U.S. employ 65,000 people, offer a wide range of marketing communications services, and place 80 percent of all national advertising. The management-oriented association helps its members build their businesses, and acts as the industry.s spokesman with government, media, and the public sector.
		Messaging Anti Abuse Working Group   www.maawg.org Messaging Anti Abuse Working Group MAAWG is a global organization focusing on preserving electronic messaging from online exploits and abuse with the goal of enhancing user trust and confidence, while ensuring the deliverability of legitimate messages. With a broad base of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and network operators representing over 600 million mailboxes, key technology providers and senders, MAAWG works to address messaging abuse by focusing on technology, industry collaboration and public policy initiatives
		Messaging News   www.messagingnews.com Messaging News Magazine answers the need for a focused IT publication that accurately addresses the rapidly changing face of business email, messaging technology and web security. Keeping pace with a powerful and exploding market, Messaging News is the only b2b publication centered solely on this industry, the editorial coverage takes an in-depth look at email, messaging and the market convergence of security and messaging professionals. By providing mission-critical information to its subscribers, Messaging News strives to become the advocate of senior IT professionals everywhere who are faced with building, securing, maintaining and adjusting their organization’s email technology infrastructure.
		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.
		U.S. Chamber of Commerce   www.USChamber.com The United States Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest not-for-profit business federation, representing more than three million businesses and organizations of every size, sector, and region in the US and abroad. Utilizing a staff of experts that includes policy specialists, lobbyists, and lawyers, the Chamber provides businesses with a voice of experience and influence in Washington, D.C.
		United States Council for International Business (USCIB)   www.uscib.org USCIB promotes an open system of global commerce, on behalf of its membership of 300 leading U.S. companies, professional services firms and associations. Working through a global network of leading international business and employers organizations, it provides business views to policy makers and regulatory authorities worldwide, and works to facilitate international trade.

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