MX Logic Reports CAN-SPAM Compliance Averages 2.3 Percent During First Six Months of Enactment
Average Monthly Compliance With CAN-SPAM Act Drops From High of 3 Percent January Through April to Low of 1 Percent in May and June
DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 7, 2004-- MX Logic, Inc., a leading provider of innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for enterprises, service providers, government organizations, resellers and their customers, today announced that monthly compliance with The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act averaged 2.3 percent during the law's first six months.
Since the CAN-SPAM Act went into force on Jan. 1, monthly compliance with the law dropped from a high of 3 percent January through April to a low of 1 percent in May and June. The findings are based on a survey of more than a quarter million email messages by MX Logic over the past six months. Unsolicited commercial email accounted for 75 percent of all email traffic through MX Logic's Threat Center during June.
"A comprehensive solution to spam cannot rest solely on legislation," said Scott Chasin, chief technology officer, MX Logic. "An enforceable anti-spam law, like the CAN-SPAM Act, must be supplemented by robust anti-spam technology, industry cooperation on improving authentication protocols, and educating users on how to defend their inboxes not only from spam, but also from worms, viruses, phishing attacks and other email threats.
"Work currently underway in the Internet Engineering Task Force on email authentication protocols, including the newly proposed Sender ID -- a merger of Caller ID and Sender Policy Framework (SPF) -- is the most promising industry-wide effort to stem spam to date. It's a step in the right direction and an effort we wholeheartedly support," Chasin said. Email authentication protocols help verify the origins of email, making it more difficult for spammers to stay in business.
The CAN-SPAM Act requires that unsolicited commercial email senders:
-- Ensure that the "FROM" line clearly reflects the sender's identity
-- Include subject line text consistent with message content
-- Include the advertiser's valid postal address
-- Contain a working opt-out mechanism as a way for the consumer to decline to receive further commercial email from the sender
MX Logic tracks compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act by examining a random sample of 10,000 unsolicited commercial emails each week. Media and analysts interested in receiving monthly CAN-SPAM compliance statistics can subscribe to MX Logic's CAN-SPAM update by sending an email to canspam@mxlogic.com.
Powering MX Logic's Email Defense solutions is MX Logic's Threat Center, a sophisticated streaming-data environment where MX Logic monitors the global state of email communication 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and provides MX Logic's customers with real-time updates and protection. Led by email security experts with extensive experience in protecting messaging networks, the Threat Center provides dynamic email defense -- staying ahead of the next attack by continually incorporating information about the latest spammer, virus and worm tactics.
About MX Logic
MX Logic, Inc., provides innovative email defense solutions that ensure email protection and security for enterprises, service providers, government organizations, and resellers and their customers. Deployed as a managed service or on-premises software, the company's feature-rich solution suite is the industry's most comprehensive, flexible and easy to use.
Founded by messaging industry pioneers, MX Logic has delivered numerous industry firsts to the enterprise spam market, including becoming the first managed service provider to: leverage Bayesian Statistical Classification; provide spam beacon ("Web bug") blocking; offer quarantine management via email; provide corporate-level quarantine release reports that help reduce inappropriate email while decreasing corporate liability; and deliver a solution for tracking URL click-throughs from email to the Web, providing increased corporate control and security.
Through the company's managed service offering, MX Logic processes millions of messages per day for over 2,000 organizations, including EnCana, Hyundai Motor America, Sports Authority, YMCA and ServiceMaster. In addition, MX Logic is the only email defense company to offer both a managed service and a turnkey, carrier-grade software solution for service providers. For more information, visit www.mxlogic.com.
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