eCert Partners With IID For New E-mail Fraud
Protection Service

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Partnership Between eCert and Internet Identity Advances E-mail Security, Protection from Phishing and Other Cyber Threats

October 5, 2010 – San Francisco, Calif. – The Internet just got a bit more secure with today’s partnership between e-mail security leader, eCert (www.ecertsystems.com), and IID (www.internetidentity.com), a provider of technology and services that help organizations and their extended enterprises secure their Internet presence.

The protections offered by eCert and IID help to prevent fraudulent e-mails from reaching consumer inboxes, secure the validity of Internet domains, detect phishing attacks, and enable the blocking and removal of fraudulent websites. Now, organizations will be able to detect, diagnose and mitigate e-mail cyber attacks, keeping their brands and their customers safe from phishing and malware.

“eCert is dedicated to securing the e-mail ecosystem and keeping online interactions safe for consumers by certifying email traffic and identifying and blocking fraudulent mail,” said Kelly Wanser, CEO, eCert. “By partnering with IID, we are able to add advanced detection and remediation capabilities to enable the most rapid countermeasures available for blocking threats from reaching consumers.”

The partnership between eCert and IID will make eCert’s E-mail Domain eCertification™ Service and IID’s ActiveSecure™ fraud detection and takedown capabilities available as turnkey bundled offerings to financial institutions, major brands, government agencies and other customers of each company. The combined capabilities will add e-mail domain security and zero-hour fraud protection to e-mail traffic from companies, protecting tens of millions of consumer inboxes.

“IID is committed to strengthening online security for enterprises and brands, and bringing highly effective anti-fraud services to our customers,” said Rod Rasmussen, President & CTO, IID. “Coupled with IID ActiveSecure™, eCert’s E-mail Domain eCertification™ Service gives targeted companies the quickest and most effective way to proactively foil phishing e-mail lures before they can ever reach millions of mailboxes.”

The eCert E-mail Domain eCertification™ Service helps financial institutions, government organizations and other enterprises leverage open standards for authentication and protection – DKIM, SPF and TLS – to prevent fraudulent online e-mail from reaching an end user’s inbox, assure trust for valid messages and obtain critical data on e-mail traffic activity and phishing attacks.

IID ActiveSecure™ is the first security solution that provides holistic protection and actionable intelligence for the entire extended enterprise against an array of Internet threats, including phishing and malware attacks, and Domain Name System (DNS) hijackings.

About eCert

eCert provides critical protection against e-mail fraud (“phishing”) to enterprises, government and other major organizations and their customers. eCert established the first "trusted intermediary" service to support e-mail authentication and block malicious traffic, and is the only service of its kind in live operation. eCert’s customers include several of the country’s largest financial institutions, and its strategic partners include Yahoo! and Google. In 2010, eCert was selected by BITS, a division of the Financial Services Roundtable, and the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) to extend its e-mail protection capabilities to the entire U.S. financial services sector. eCert was founded in 2008 by veterans with experience in e-mail, security and financial services technology. www.ecertsystems.com

About IID

IID (Internet Identity) has been providing technology and services that secure the Internet presence for an organization and its extended enterprise since the company was founded in 1996. It recently started delivering the industry’s first and only solution for detecting, diagnosing and mitigating domain name system (DNS) security and configuration issues for an organization and its extended enterprise. IID also provides anti-phishing, malware and brand security solutions for many of today’s leading financial service firms, e-commerce, social networking and ISP companies, and more. The company is working hard to deliver solutions that help keep the Internet safe and trusted for businesses. IID is headquartered in Tacoma, Washington. More information can be found at www.internetidentity.com

PRESS CONTACTS:

Katy Lim
changepr@gmail.com

Larry Baird
larry(at)ecertsystems.com