Return Path Launches Industry's Largest ISP Anti-Phishing Program with AOL, Libero, Microsoft, Synacor, UOL and Yahoo!
World's Largest Program Accelerates DMARC Email Authentication Standard Adoption, Protects ISPs and Their Customers Against Phishing Attacks While Improving Trust in Email
Return
Path, the world's leading email certification and reputation
monitoring company, today launched the world's largest ISP Anti-Phishing
Program which includes AOL, Libero, Microsoft, Synacor, UOL and Yahoo!.
Return Path's ISP Anti-Phishing Program enables ISPs around the world to
adopt the new DMARC email authentication standard more quickly, protect
their customers against phishing attacks, protect their own brand
against spear phishing and improve overall trust in email as a
communication channel. Return Path's ISP Anti-Phishing Program, free of
charge to ISPs, was announced at the M(3)AAWG
25th General Meeting held June 5-7, 2012 in Berlin, Germany.
"Return Path's ISP Anti-Phishing Program underscores our long standing,
deep relationships with the world's leading ISPs and is squarely aimed
at eliminating consumer targeted phishing attacks," said Matt Blumberg,
CEO at Return Path. "There isn't a day that goes by in which we don't
hear or read about a leading brand getting hijacked, and each time it
happens it erodes trust in the email channel. By working together,
Return Path and its ISP partners can effectively combat domain phishing
and help ensure a trusted, secure email ecosystem."
"Synacor enables our ISP customers to offer their end-consumers an email
environment everyone can trust," said Eric Toczek, Director of Email,
Synacor, Inc. "The adoption and use of DMARC plays a key role in that
ability, providing a mechanism that can be used to protect mailboxes
from many domain phishing attacks. Syancor is excited be part of the
Return Path ISP Program to help drive adoption of DMARC and provide
consumers a safer and more secure email environment."
Return Path's ISP Anti-Phishing Program
Companies who are part of the Return Path ISP Anti-Phishing Program have
access to a global team of email experts who can assist them with
handling un-authenticated email, generating feedback reports to domain
owners on email that don't pass authentication, reducing domain spoofing
and the impact of phishing and fraudulent email messages delivered to
end-users.
As the global leader in email certification solutions trusted by more
than 2,500 top brands, Return Path leverages its extensive network and
relationships with more than 70 of the world's largest ISPs, receiving
data on more phishing attacks than any other industry player, covering
over 2.2 billion inboxes. Return Path's ISP Anti-Phishing Program
provides the widest breadth and depth of visibility into ISPs' outbound
email authentication practices and includes:
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Email Authentication and DMARC deployment assistance, implementation
guides and primers
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Assistance with authentication report generation on both
inbound/outbound emails
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ISP brand protection against spear phishing - Return Path helps ISPs
implement outbound email authentication combined with in-bound DMARC
policy enforcement to help prevent spear phishing of their own brand.
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Protection of ISP Customers against the effect of phishing attacks
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Improved Trust in the Email Platform
Return Path Industry Affiliations
Return Path is a board member and sponsor of the Messaging, Malware and
Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M(3)AAWG),
a steering committee and board member of the Online
Trust Alliance (OTA), a founding member of DMARC.org
and a member of the Anti-Phishing Work Group (APWG).
The company is a contributing author to email authentication open
standards and is at the forefront of protecting users and ISPs against
fraudulent email with its Domain
Assurance, anti-phishing solution. M(3)AAWG recently announced
the appointment of Christine Borgia, Senior Director, Email Intelligence
Group, Return Path as a Collaboration Committee Chair and Sam Masiello,
CSO of Return Path as a Training Committee chair. Return Path will be
presenting several sessions at the M(3)AAWG Summit 2012.
To learn more about Return Path's ISP Program, please visit:
http://www.returnpath.net/internetserviceprovider/dmarc/
About Return Path
Return Path makes email work better by scoring and certifying email
senders from around the world. We help marketers, publishers and other
large-volume email senders increase their response rates by providing
the world's leading inbox deliverability solution. We help mailbox
providers and email administrators at ISPs and enterprises block
unwelcome and malicious email by providing near real-time IP reputation
scores and other data-driven tools. Taken as a whole, these tools and
services improve the consumer experience of email by protecting them
from spam, phishing and other abuse. Return Path offers free access to
Sender Score, the email reputation measure compiled through our
cooperative data network of ISPs and other email receivers, at our
reputation portal:
www.senderscore.org .
