Originally published July 31 2005
Email summit participants push for spam safeguards
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
At a one-day summit in New York, representatives urged private sector administration and marketers to start adopting sender authentication technologies in order to safeguard email accounts for the growing number of spam and phishing attempts.
Representatives from 37 e-mail technology companies used a one-day Summit in New York on Tuesday to exhort private sector administrators and online marketers to adopt e-mail sender authentication technology that helps block spam and phishing attacks.
Around 500 people attended the E-Mail Authentication Implementation Summit and heard speeches by Internet luminary Esther Dyson, as well as executives from Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Inc. and the Direct Marketing Association.
With problems like spam and phishing continuing to grow, companies need to implement some form of e-mail authentication technology soon, and begin preparing for the next wave in e-mail security: sender reputation services, according to e-mail experts.
The implicit trust that existed when the Internet was created as a government-sponsored research project has evaporated, Dyson told Summit attendees in a keynote address.
Executives from Bank of America and NewsCorp talked about their experiences implementing sender authentication technology and the benefits of authenticating outbound and inbound e-mail.
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Within a year, most companies will have adopted some form of sender authentication technology for their e-mail, putting those companies that don't at a competitive disadvantage, said Erik Johnson, vice president of Email Infrastructure and Secure Messaging at Bank of America.
Corey Null of Principal Financial Group said that his company is a target of phishing attacks and has already implemented SPF for its e-mail domains.
He was at the Summit looking for indications of what further steps leading e-mail players would take to combat problems such as spam and phishing.
Echoing the comments of others at the Summit, Null said that implementing SPF hasn't lessened the company's exposure to phishing attacks, but it has caused Principal to get a better handle on how it sends e-mail.
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