MAAWG Provides Free Messaging Security Training: Releases DKIM Implementation Tutorial by Leading Experts, Invites Industry to Previously Closed Training Courses

SAN FRANCISCO, May 24, 2010 - As an industry service, the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG),
the largest global anti-spam industry organization, has released its first
online training video and is opening the technical training sessions at its
next meeting to non-members for the first time, both at no cost. The new
four-part tutorial by leading experts on DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) is
now available at the MAAWG website, and the live training courses on DNS
security, complaint feedback loops, and DKIM at the MAAWG 19th General
Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, on June 7 will be open to the industry.

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MAAWG is offering the free training to educate messaging professionals
worldwide on the latest technologies to help prevent spam and fraudulent
messages from reaching consumers. According to the organization's email
metrics reports (www.maawg.org/email_metrics_report), almost 90% of
all email traffic is spam that is stopped before it reaches end-users'
inboxes.

"We're facing an ever-escalating war with spam, phishing and email fraud.
Recognizing the expertise that gathers at our members-only MAAWG meetings, we
wanted to step up to the plate and make this knowledge more accessible to the
global industry. The training will enable more messaging specialists to use
these tools, and the more professionals capable of implementing advanced
technologies, the better the email experience will be for all consumers,"
said Michael O'Reirdan, MAAWG chairman.

Free Tutorial and Training Sessions Focus on Strategic Technologies

Now available online, the free DKIM implementation video looks at this
popular standard that allows an organization to take responsibility for a
message by securely affixing a domain name to it. This allows receivers to
evaluate the reputation of the organization. Originally presented in February
2010, the tutorial is the first video in the MAAWG Training Series and runs
one hour and 40 minutes. It is delivered in 20 to 35 minute segments covering
theory and implementation that can be accessed at
www.maawg.org/activities/training.

The DKIM video features Dave Crocker, MAAWG senior technical advisor and
principal of Brandenburg InternetWorking, and Murray S. Kucherawy, Cloudmark
principal engineer. Crocker has been instrumental in the adoption of the
standard, and Kucherawy is the principal author of both Sendmail libdkim and
OpenDKIM, the most widely used open source DKIM software.

All of the live training sessions at the MAAWG meeting on June 7 also
will be taught by working professionals with extensive knowledge about the
topic. In the past, the training sessions were only available to MAAWG
members who attended the general meetings. The sessions now open to qualified
non-members include:

    - DNSSEC (DNS Security) - Paul Vixie, ARIN chairman, Internet
      Systems Consortium president, and author of several RFCs on DNS, will
      unravel the technical complexities and outline a path to successful
      implementation of DNSSEC by highlighting some of the major obstacles and
      challenges.
    - Complaint Feedback Loop Implementation - will look at the
      technical and social aspects of FBL, from business costs and benefits to
      the operational issues of creating and using a feedback loop. Kate
      Nowrouzi, Fishbowl manager of ISP relations, and Heather Lord, a senior
      engineer in anti-abuse technology at a major ISP, will lead the session.
    - DKIM Theory and Implementation - The leading standard for adding
      trust back into email, this session will explain how DKIM works and how
      to plan a DKIM strategy, deploy it on email servers, and use it as a
      trust-based tool. Taught by Crocker and Kucherawy, it will include any
      updates since the video was made.

Industry professionals can request to attend the June training sessions
in Barcelona by selecting "training" as the inquiry type on the "Contact Us"
form at the MAAWG website, www.maawg.org/contact_form, and sending a
message specifying the session with the requestor's name, company, title,
phone number and email address.

More information on the courses is available at
www.maawg.org/activities/training. The MAAWG 19th General Meeting will
be held June 8-10 in Barcelona. The three-day event following the training is
open to members-only and will focus on mobile platforms. (Meeting details are
in a May 18 MAAWG news release.)

About the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)

The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) is where the messaging
industry comes together to work against spam, viruses, denial-of-service
attacks and other online exploitation. MAAWG (www.maawg.org)
represents almost one billion mailboxes from some of the largest network
operators worldwide. It is the only organization addressing messaging abuse
holistically by systematically engaging all aspects of the problem, including
technology, industry collaboration and public policy. MAAWG leverages the
depth and experience of its global membership to tackle abuse on existing
networks and new emerging services. Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif.,
MAAWG is an open forum driven by market needs and supported by major network
operators and messaging providers.

Media Contact: Linda Marcus, APR, +1-714-974-6356, LMarcus@astra.cc,
Astra Communications

MAAWG Board of Directors: AOL; AT&T (NYSE: T); Cloudmark, Inc.; Comcast
(Nasdaq: CMCSA); Cox Communications; Eloqua; France Telecom (NYSE and
Euronext: FTE); Goodmail Systems; Openwave Systems (Nasdaq: OPWV); Time
Warner Cable; Verizon Communications; and Yahoo! Inc.

MAAWG Full Members: 1&1 Internet AG; Apple Inc.; Bizanga LTD; Cisco
Systems, Inc.; Constant Contact (CTCT); e-Dialog; Experian CheetahMail;
Genius.com; Internet Initiative Japan (IIJ Nasdaq: IIJI); McAfee Inc.;
PayPal; Return Path, Inc.; Spamhaus; Sprint; Symantec; and Zynga, Inc.

A complete member list is available at www.maawg.org/about/roster.

Linda Marcus, APR, Astra Communications, +1-714-974-6356, LMarcus at astra.cc