Spam-fighters coalition formed

ICSA announces cooperative forum of anti-spam developers.

CyberTrust

-owned

ICSA Labs

has announced the formation of the

Anti-Spam Product Developers’ Consortium

, a grouping of product vendors aimed at providing greater cooperation and knowledge-sharing within the industry.

The coalition plans to meet regularly to discuss issues and devlopments in world of the spam and spam-fighting, to provide a central voice for user education and to develop criteria for measuring and certifying the effectiveness of anti-spam products.

Founder members of the coalition include

Astaro

,

COMDOM

,

Fortinet

,

IBM

,

Kaspersky

,

Proofpoint

,

SECNAP

,

Sendio

,

SonicWALL

and

Symantec

, and their inaugural meeting is scheduled to take place in May. A release from

ICSA Labs

, in PDF format, is

here

.

Posted on 13 April 2007 by

Virus Bulletin