Press Releases
Mailshell Introduces New Statistical
Solution for Stopping Email Fraud
Mailshell SpamRepute Index Unveiled at FTC's Email
Authentication Summit
WASHINGTON DC, November 10, 2004 - Mailshell,
the OEM anti-spam leader and creator of the world's
only SpamCompiler, will introduce the Mailshell SpamRepute
Index here today at the Federal Trade Commission's Email
Authentication Summit. SpamRepute Index is an advanced
statistical analysis-based method of quantifying email
senders' reputations, to identify 'phishing' and other
fraud-based email.
Mailshell started developing SpamRepute
Index earlier this year and has recently added it to
its spam filtering library currently used by more than
4,000 companies and 10 million consumers. The method
accurately identifies virtually all phishing, spoofing
and other fraudulent email. SpamRepute Index is compatible
with other sender authentication techniques including
Sender ID, Domain Keys and other emerging authentication
standards.
"The need to quantify sender reputation
grows as spammers fraudulently emulate legitimate mail
and reputable senders," said Tonny Yu, founder and CEO
of Mailshell, and a featured speaker at the FTC's summit
this week. "Stopping spam is ultimately a math problem
so converting reputation into quantifiable statistics
is therefore a more accurate, scalable and global approach."
SpamRepute Index tracks and correlates
"hard to fake" email attributes including IP address,
domains, sender fingerprints and message fingerprints,
along with secondary attributes such as country of origin,
domain owner, name server and registrar. The data is
compiled from Mailshell's global networks of servers
and combined, via Bayesian statistical analysis, to
compute an overall SpamRepute Index for every message.
Though many anti-spam solutions, including Mailshell's,
use Bayesian filtering to analyze message content, Mailshell
is the only solution to use Bayesian analysis to determine
sender reputation and to detect bulk mail.
Tonny Yu will present an overview of
SpamRepute Index at the FTC's Email Authentication Summit
as part of session titled "Beyond Email Authentication:
The Role of Reputation, Accreditation and Other Spam
Tools" at 3:30 pm on Wednesday, November 10.
Mailshell is the leading anti-spam OEM
and is the first and only anti-spam engine in the world
with SpamCompiler Technology. SpamCompiler can process
more than a million filter checks in a fraction of a
second. Via Mailshell's OEM partners, more than 4,000
companies and 10 million consumers worldwide rely on
the 'Powered by Mailshell' software to block spam. Mailshell's
software helps its OEM partners increase their average
revenue per customer, create new sources of recurring
revenue, and decrease sales and support costs.
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Contact:
Stefan Pollack, The Pollack PR Marketing Group,
(310) 556-4443, spollack@ppmgcorp.com
