eCert Partners With Google and Yahoo! To Protect Businesses and Consumers from Email Fraud

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Email Domain eCertification™ Service Protects Email Users and Brands Against Phishing

April 13, 2010 - San Francisco, Calif. – Email security leader eCert Inc. has announced a new, first-ever service to protect consumers from major forms of email fraud, commonly known as “phishing.” Developed in collaboration with leading financial institutions and ISPs, the eCert Email Domain eCertification™ Service adds a layer of protection for email traffic that helps network operators block phishing scams before they reach the consumer’s inbox.

Today’s announcement includes eCert’s partnership with two of the industry’s leading email service providers: Google and Yahoo! Now, financial institutions, social networks and ecommerce companies have the ability to stop the losses in revenue and consumer trust created by email fraud.

“Yahoo! has the confidence of over 300-million email customers, and is a leader in developing standards for email authentication. Last year alone, we blocked 6 trillion spam messages from getting through to our customers,” stated Mark Risher, senior director, Yahoo! Mail. “As the number one email provider in the United States, we remain committed to email protection measures for customers and businesses by supporting services that leverage these industry standards. eCert’s work with the financial industry and other major email senders and email providers is a critical component to achieving the shared goal of comprehensive protection.”

To solve the critical problem of email fraud for businesses and consumers, email industry veterans at eCert have been collaborating with experts at the largest financial institutions and leading ISPs since 2006 on an approach that leverages new email authentication standards to increase security and reduce phishing.

Kelly Wanser, CEO of eCert, states, “The eCert service marks a major advance for the industry in the fight against email phishing and online fraud. We are privileged to have collaboratively developed a service that marries the security and performance requirements of the world’s largest financial institutions with the consumer experience needs and technical expertise of the world’s largest and fastest growing email providers.”

The eCert Email Domain eCertification™ Service is a centralized service to register, manage and monitor domains that send email. Three key features of eCert’s groundbreaking new service include: monitoring email traffic and threat activity, protecting member company emails against major forms of phishing, and ‘eCertification™’ that enables advanced security, improved delivery and other important benefits, including delivery of critical data on email traffic activity and phishing attack alerts.

eCert is the first service of its kind in operation. As a vital new part of the Internet ecosystem, eCert currently protects over 100 million U.S. consumers and over $50 billion in brand value for the largest financial institutions in the U.S.

Membership in the eCert service is open to financial institutions and other companies and organizations exposed to phishing and email traffic threats. For information on membership, visit www.ecertsystems.com/membership. eCert partners include Internet Service Providers, financial services operators, email security vendors and email infrastructure providers. For information on partnering with eCert, visit www.ecertsystems.com/partners.

About eCert

Founded in 2008, eCert, Inc. is a privately held company based in San Francisco, California. eCert is rapidly expanding its network of ISP and security industry partners to ensure that large-scale, high-quality email senders, receivers and their customers have the best anti-phishing and traffic protection available for email. For more information visit: www.ecertsystems.com

PRESS CONTACTS:

Katy Lim
changepr@gmail.com

Larry Baird
larry(at)ecertsystems.com