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Microsoft Shows 'Strong Momentum' In Email Protection
Chris Crum
Staff Writer
2006-04-19
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Microsoft is joining more than 36 companies in participating in the second annual Email Authentication Summit in Chicago.
The company announced "strong momentum" in its work with other technology industry leaders to help promote email safety.
Included in this strong momentum is the heightened use of the Sender ID framework for e-mail authentication, as well as the launch of an enhanced MSN Postmaster Services program. The program is designed to assist email senders and ISPs to manage their outbound email infrastructures better.
Sender ID, which is to be discussed at the summit, verifies domain names that emails are sent from by checking their IP addresses and comparing them with published lists of legitimate IP addresses for the domain that the message is supposed to be from.
Microsoft cites the following stats to back up its progress claim:
- There has been a threefold increase in Sender ID adoption among Fortune 500 companies, increasing from 7 percent in July 2005 to 21 percent in March 2006.
- In the past year, the number of dot-com and dot-net domains publishing their SPF records jumped by more than 125 percent, increasing from 750,000 domains in March 2005 to 2.16 million domains in March 2006.
- MarkMonitor and VeriSign found that with more than 3.3 million domains worldwide now sending Sender ID-compliant e-mail, approximately 2 billion e-mail messages from known, legitimate senders are sent each day globally.
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Chris Crum is a staff writer for SecurityProNews and WebProNews.
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