Reputation
Reputation Partners let our customers access a comprehensive combination of E-mail and messaging reputation databases that rank and categorize senders based on criteria. These criteria include E-mail volume, business type, certification status, volume of detected spam originating from the sender. By combining this information in the IMP Workflow Policy Processor, customers can apply their own policies to their message and E-mail streams.
Commtouch
Commtouch's IP Reputation Service differs from other similar services in its breadth of coverage and real-time delivery of information. Commtouch's global detection centers analyze millions of messages per day, globally providing visibility into network traffic in every location. In real-time, the IP Reputation Service determines if a particular address is sending spam, legitimate E-mail, or both; and whether or not it has become a zombie. These capabilities let Commtouch's IP Reputation solution react to distributed zombie attacks the moment they start.
Commtouch IP Reputation classifies traffic based on the following factors (leveraging statistical analysis of averages over time and recent changes):
- Mail volume
- Spam ratio
- Valid to bulk ratio
- Real-time zombie/botnet detection
- Composite RBL score that is continuously refined
- Use of IP DNS and whois attributes such as domain age, geography, known dynamic IP and other factors.
By integrating Commtouch's IP Reputation with the IMP Workflow Policy Processor, operators can throttle unknown and suspected sources while clearing the bandwidth to offer free access to desired senders.
Product: Commtouch IP Reputation Service
Availability: Chargeable add-on
Supported Platform: IMP
Supported Releases: 3.0 and above
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Habeas
Habeas manages several of the industry's most comprehensive reputation databases. Habeas collects, analyzes and categorizes the behavior of over 150 million IP addresses and domains received from the Habeas Network -- over a quarter of a million receiving mail servers in over 170 countries. This becomes two databases: Habeas SafeList and Habeas SenderIndex:
The Habeas SafeList, one of the industry's most widely-used Internet whitelists, integrates directly with the IMP to identify reputable senders whose communications are allowed to bypass content filters and head into the inbox.
Product: Habeas SafeList
Availability: Bundled with maintenance
Supported Platform: IMP
Supported Releases: 3.0 and above
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Habeas SenderIndex, a comprehensive E-mail reputation database, ranks and categorizes volume E-mail senders to help service providers make better decisions on how to manage E-mail traffic. Unlike blacklists and whitelists, it defines characteristics -- such as E-mail volume, authentication usage, business type, and mail type -- and allows service providers to apply their own policies to inbound mail streams. Habeas SenderIndex also integrates directly with the IMP for use within the Workflow Policy Processor for segregating and classifying E-mail and message traffic.
Product: Habeas SenderIndex
Availability: Requires separate contract
Supported Platform: IMP
Supported Releases: 3.0 and above
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Return Path
Based on its work with E-mail senders since 1999, Return Path maintains two databases derived from tracking and scoring the behavior of E-mail senders: The Sender Score Reputation Monitor and Sender Score Certified.
Sender Score Certified, formerly known as Bonded Sender, provides a whitelist to service providers for identifying legitimate mailers. E-mail senders in Sender Score Certified must adhere to extremely strict program standards. Sender Score Certified is a successful and widely adopted E-mail accreditation program. Over 35,000 receivers representing corporations, ISPs and universities have successfully implemented its whitelist.
Product: Return Path Sender Score Certified
Availability: Bundled with maintenance
Supported Platform: IMP
Supported Releases: 3.0 and above
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Sender Score Reputation Monitor, Return Path's E-mail reputation service, tracks and scores the behavior of E-mail senders. It aggregates more than 60 data elements from E-mail receivers like ISPs to compile a composite reputation score for every sender of commercial E-mail. Sender Score Reputation Monitor analyzes data covering more than 40 million E-mail boxes across filtering companies and ISPs, so it can report reputation information across numerous indices. Sender Score Reputation Monitor looks at the following:
* Complaint rate data
* Volume of E-mail sent
* Filtering rates
* Unknown user rates
* Security practices
* Identity stability
* Blacklist counts
* Unsubscribe functionality
Product: Return Path Sender Score Reputation Monitor
Availability: Requires separate contract
Supported Platform: IMP
Supported Releases: 3.0 and above
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Spamhaus
Spamhaus, an international non-profit organization that tracks the Internet's Spam Gangs, provides dependable realtime anti-spam protection for Internet networks. It works with with law enforcement agencies to identify and pursue spammers worldwide. The organization also lobbies governments for effective anti-spam legislation.
To protect networks and E-mail users, Spamhaus publishes a number of spam-blocking databases, including the Spamhaus Block List, Exploits Block List and the Policy Block List. Many of the Internet's major ISPs, corporations, universities, government and military networks rely on the Spamhaus Block List. It broadcasts from a network of 32 servers in 12 countries, and protects over 600 million Internet user mailboxes.
Product: Spamhaus SBL/XBL/PBL Data Feed
Availability: Bundled with maintenance
Supported Platform: IMP
Supported Releases: 2.4 and above
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Trend Micro
Trend MicroTM provides a set of Network Reputation Services to stop 80% of spam at the source. The service blocks spam by verifying the IP address of incoming E-mail against the one of the world's largest, most trusted reputation database of known spam sources. Dynamic Real-Time Spam Blocking identifies new sources of spam, zombies, and botnets as soon as they attack.
Powered by the Trend Micro Threat Prevention Network, the Network Reputation Services consists of the Trend Micro RBL+ (Real-Time Blackhole List) Service and the Trend Micro Network Anti-Spam Service. Highly-trained spam investigators operate this global network where they continuously monitor spam, collect spam samples, and review reputation ratings carefully to ensure accuracy.
The network delivers real-time updates to the database for immediate availability. Trend Micro maintains the Mail Abuse Prevention System (MAPS), also a part of the Threat Prevention Network, to make sure reputation ratings stay accurate and updated.
The RBL+ (Real-Time Blackhole List) Service validates IP addresses against one of the industry's most comprehensive and reliable database of known spam sources that currently contains over 1.6 billion IP addresses with reputation ratings based on spamming activity.
The Network Anti-Spam Service combines Dynamic Real-Time Spam Blocking with all of the features of RBL+ Service. Not only does it verify IP addresses against the database, but it also identifies suspect behavior and blocks new sources of spam - even zombies and botnets - in real time as users send E-mail . It immediately delivers updates to the database for reliable, up-to-the-minute protection.
As a founding Gold Member in Trend Micro's Messaging Vendor Program, Bizanga works closely with Trend Micro to keep its products and the IMP tightly integrated.
Product: Trend Micro RBL+, Trend Micro Network Anti-Spam
Availability: Chargeable add-on
Supported Platform: IMP
Supported Releases: 2.4 and above
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