CipherTrust Showcases Complete Messaging Security Ecosystem at RSA 2006; Company CTO and Research Scientist Participate in Panel Discussions, While Latest Innovations are Demonstrated at the Exhibition Booth.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- CipherTrust, Inc., the global market leader in messaging security, today announced a range of activities at RSA (1) (Rural Service Area) See MSA. (2) (Rivest-Shamir-Adleman) A highly secure cryptography method by RSA Security, Inc., Bedford, MA (www.rsa.com), a division of EMC Corporation since 2006. It uses a two-part key. 2006, scheduled for February 13-17 at the McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, Calif. With executive presentations, booth demonstrations, and newly announced partnerships, CipherTrust (RSA booth 1610) will highlight the state of the messaging security market, including insight into how solutions need to expand beyond e-mail to the entire ecosystem of messaging security. "CipherTrust is the leading messaging security solution innovator and provider, and RSA is important to us as a way of showcasing our work and discussing how we are protecting our customers against all current and future vulnerabilities," said Jay Chaudhry, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , chairman and founder of CipherTrust. "In the last 12 months, our customers have been asking us to apply our highly effective policy-based approach to e-mail security to other messaging protocols The rules, formats and functions for exchanging messages between the components of a messaging system. The most widely used messaging protocol is the Internet's Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). . The results are on display at RSA." Two CipherTrust experts are involved in technical discussions. CipherTrust Chief Technology Officer Dr. Paul Judge Sir Paul Judge is a leader in financial services and in education. He is Chairman of Schroder Income Growth Fund plc, a director of Standard Bank Group Ltd of Johannesburg and a member of the Advisory Boards for Barclays Private Bank and for Abraaj Capital of Dubai. will lead a panel discussion on the state of e-mail authentication The verification that an e-mail message has been sent by the domain name in the From field. Called "domain spoofing," spammers falsify the From address in their messages in order not to be identified. , a concept many believe could eliminate phishing Pronounced "fishing," it is a scam to steal valuable information such as credit card and social security numbers, user IDs and passwords. Also known as "brand spoofing," an official-looking e-mail is sent to potential victims pretending to be from their ISP, bank or retail establishment. attacks. His panel, which is scheduled for February 15 at 2 p.m. Pacific, includes peers from Microsoft, Cisco and PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) A data encryption program from PGP Corporation, Palo Alto, CA (www.pgp.com). Published as freeware in 1991 and widely used around the world for encrypting e-mail messages and securing files, PGP is available for commercial use and as freeware for . In 2004, CipherTrust was the first e-mail security vendor to include e-mail authentication registration checks as part of its process for identifying unwanted e-mail messages. CipherTrust Research Scientist Dmitri Alperovitch is participating in a discussion on phishing also on February 15 at 2 p.m. Pacific. Alperovitch has gathered significant intelligence on how phishing attacks are conducted, based on enterprise reputation data collected from TrustedSource(TM), CipherTrust's behavior-based sender reputation system. CipherTrust recently announced a new service, CipherTrust RADAR(TM), used by companies to peer into the reputation data, to be alerted when phishing attacks are in progress, and to see how their corporate IT resources are affected by the attacks. "CipherTrust research and development has always been rapid to identify and remedy security threats to our customers, and we are applying that intelligence in RSA discussions on two very popular topics: e-mail authentication and phishing," said Judge. "The intent is to share with the community insight we've gained. We hope this process will aid our continued efforts to innovate and help other companies handle the messaging security challenges within their enterprises." Safeguarding Multiple Messaging Technologies CipherTrust is addressing an emerging need to protect other messaging protocols beyond e-mail--including instant messaging Exchanging text messages in real time between two or more people logged into a particular instant messaging (IM) service. Instant messaging is more interactive than e-mail because messages are sent immediately, whereas e-mail messages can be queued up in a mail server for seconds or , Webmail and electronic communication via mobile devices. At the RSA CipherTrust booth (1610), CipherTrust will demonstrate its full line of comprehensive messaging security offerings, including new innovations developed since last year's exhibition. Visitors can witness how the CipherTrust Edge(TM) can reject up to 80-percent of e-mail connections based simply on the reputation of the sender, resulting in a dramatic performance increase for a company's mail servers. The booth will also feature demonstrations of CipherTrust RADAR, the new Web-based service that provides real-time monitoring and alerts for how phishing attacks and zombie A computer that has been covertly taken over in order to perform some nefarious task. It is estimated that millions of PCs around the world have been compromised and, under the control of a third party, routinely transmit messages unbeknownst to the user. PCs are propagating and affecting corporate networks, and IronIM(TM), CipherTrust's new instant messaging security gateway offering. In related news, CipherTrust CEO, Chairman and Founder Jay Chaudhry is presenting at the Second Annual America's Growth Capital Information Security and Data Center Conference on Monday, February 13 at 1 p.m. Pacific at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, Calif. Chaudhry joins other top industry executives in a panel discussion, "Configuration, Compliance & Threat Management." The presentation will be available via Webcast at http://www.wsw.com/webcast/agc3/panel5/. About CipherTrust, Inc. CipherTrust, Inc., the global market leader in messaging security, provides innovative layered security Layered security is a new term used by information protection and online security vendors that describes the practice of leveraging several different point security solutions to protect the digital identities and information of consumer, enterprise or government environments. solutions to stop inbound in·bound 1 adj. Bound inward; incoming: inbound commuter traffic. Adj. 1. inbound messaging threats such as spam, viruses, intrusions and phishing, and protect against outbound policy and compliance violations. CipherTrust's integrated best-of-breed capabilities deliver maximum availability and unmatched security, effectiveness and enterprise manageability across multiple messaging protocols including e-mail and instant messaging. Recognized by IDC as the market leader for secure content management appliances, CipherTrust protects the messaging infrastructure of more enterprises than any other vendor, including more than one-third of the Fortune 500. CipherTrust is backed by top-tier investors including Battery Ventures and Greylock Partners. For more information about CipherTrust, please visit www.ciphertrust.com or call 877-448-8625. The following are either trademarks or registered trademarks of CipherTrust, Inc. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. or other countries or both: CipherTrust, TrustedSource, CipherTrust RADAR, CipherTrust Edge, IronIM. Other company, product or service names may be trademarks or service marks of others. |
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