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ICSA Labs Premier Services
Collaborates with Mailshell to Establish Testing and
Certification Program for Spam Filtering Solutions
SANTA CLARA, CA - December 8, 2005 - Mailshell,
the OEM anti-spam and anti-phishing leader, and ICSA
Labs will collaborate in the creation of ICSA Labs'
new spam filtering evaluation testing and certification
program. Mailshell along with the ICSA Labs Premier
Services Group have begun co-development of the testing
protocols and methodology which is targeted to officially
launch in early 2006. Once launched, the program will
be administered and managed by ICSA Labs.
"Our research indicates a significant
need in the marketplace, both among IT professionals
and security vendors, for standardized spam filtering
testing," said George Japak, vice president of ICSA
Labs. "Mailshell's lab-focused approach, combined with
real-world expertise via its top-tier OEM partners,
makes it an ideal relationship for us."
ICSA Labs evaluation testing and certification
assures the user community that certified products,
including anti-virus, SSL-TLS VPN, IPSec VPN, firewall,
and wireless vendors, underwent the industry's most
stringent testing and meet industry-accepted product
security standards worldwide. Via its global network
of OEM partners, more than 6,000 companies and 10 million
consumers rely on Powered by Mailshell' spam filters.
"The lack of standards and certification
among vendors make the spam filtering market a town
without a sheriff," said Tonny Yu, CEO of Mailshell.
"The daily mutations in spam and phishing combined
with inconsistent testing standards and some vendors'
exaggerated marketing claims make it very hard for IT
managers to get reliable data. We believe that ICSA
Labs is the best, most qualified party to help bring
order to the confusion."
Security and end user communities have
relied on ICSA Labs for more than 15 years to provide
credible testing results on security products and solutions.
The new relationship further verifies that the standards
set by ICSA Labs for certifying information security
products, and the security consortia that it sponsors
for information security intelligence sharing and gathering,
incorporate the highest standards for reliable, independent
data and verification.
About ICSA Labs: ICSA Labs, an
independent division of Cybertrust, Inc. offers vendor
neutral testing and certification of security products
for hundreds of the world's top security vendor products.
The end-users of security technologies rely on ICSA
Labs to authoritatively set and apply objective testing
and certification criteria for measuring product compliance
and reliability. The organization tests products in
key technology categories such as anti-virus, firewall,
IPsec VPN, cryptography, intrusion detection and prevention,
PC firewall, SSL-VPN, anti-spyware and Wireless LAN.
For more information about ICSA Labs Premier Services,
please visit: http://www.icsalabs.com.
About Mailshell Inc.: Mailshell
(www.mailshell.com) helps its OEM partners, including
Computer Associates, Oracle Corporation, CyberGuard,
Panda Software, ZyXEL, Earthlink's Aluria division,
Rockliffe, Broderbund and Lyris Technologies, among
others, generate new anti-spam revenue, upsell existing
products to new anti-spam customers, and cut anti-spam
engineering and support costs to near zero. OEM partners
integrate the Mailshell Engine into their existing product
or application using Mailshell's development toolkit,
the Mailshell Anti-Spam SDK. Mailshell's SpamCompiler
developers hold nearly 30 patents in database modeling
and design, and are leading experts in using Artificial
Intelligence technology to compile high-level languages
into optimized code.
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Contact:
Eytan Urbas, Mailshell Inc., (415) 348-8728,
eytan@mailshell.com
