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The Organization & History
Faced with increasing levels of spam and deceptive email, in early 2004, a group
of business, industry and marketing leaders led by Bigfoot Interactive,
Email Sender and Provider Coalition (ESPC), Microsoft and Sendmail began
meeting to pursue solutions to
authenticate email and improve user confidence. Following the FTC
Authentication Summit in October 2004, a decision was made to take decisive
action to advance authenticated email, forming
www.emailauthentication.org.
In July 2005, the first Email Authentication
Summit was hosted in New York City. Underwritten by over three dozen
industry and business leaders, this premier event was sold out with over 400
attendees. Responding to industry and governmental input, the alliance moved
forward developing tools and resources, hosting the second
Authentication & Reputation Summit in Chicago
in April 2006. Once again the Summit was a sell-out
with over 500 attendees. With the continued onslaught of phishing and
deceptive email undermining user and business confidence, in September of 2006,
emailauthentication.org was incorporated as the Authentication and Online Trust
Alliance (AOTA) in Washington State as AOTA Inc.
Our Mission
AOTA is comprised of internationally recognized leading business, industry and
not for profit organizations who are committed to improve trust and confidence
in electronic messaging, the Internet and ecommerce. While maintaining its
focus and technical leadership in e-mail authentication, AOTA's mission was
expanded to help address boarder issues and threats impacting online trust and
confidence.
The mission of AOTA is to enhance online trust and confidence in all forms of
electronic messaging, ecommerce, ebanking and the internet, helping to improve
safety and online protection of businesses and consumers alike. The goals
include facilitating best practices, data sharing and the deployment and
implementation of email and internet authentication, identity and reputation
standards and solutions and domain defense strategies, providing the ecosystem prescriptive and actionable advice in a vendor neutral
environment. Recognizing corporate leadership and commitment to online
safety, protecting the internet ecosystem and consumers, AOTA presents the
annual Online Safety Leadership Awards. More
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Membership
Companies and non-profit organizations may apply for supporting member
status for an annual fee of $2,500, ($1000 for non-profit organizations).
Industry level and Steering Committee memberships are available for
application on an annual basis and including underwriting status for the
annual AOTA Summit. Applications will be available on or about July 2007. All applications are subject to review by the Steering Committee
and Board of AOTA. AOTA reserves the
right to deny membership upon review of applicant's industry reputation, email
practices, privacy policies, past legal actions, abuse complaints and business
practices set forth by AOTA including but not limited to those required for membership by the Anti-Spyware
Coalition, DMA, ESPC, MAAWG, IAPP, TRUSTe
and other organizations.**
For more information e-mail "staff AT aotalliance.org" including your
corporate background in online safety, industry reference(s), current
industry and professional memberships and proposed corporate contacts.
Member Companies
Steering Committee
Acxiom / Digital (formally Digital Impact) -
www.acxiomdigital.com *
Datran Media (formally Skylist) -
www.datranmedia.com
The Direct Marketing Association (DMA) -
www.the-dma.org *
Epsilon* (Formally Bigfoot Interactive) -
www.epsilon.com *
Email Sender & Provider Coalition (ESPC) - www.espcoalition.org *
IronPort Systems - www.ironport.com
MarkMonitor - www.markmonitor.com
Microsoft Corporation - www.microsoft.com
*
RSA - www.rsasecurity.com
SecureComputing (formally CipherTrust) -
www.securecomputing.com
Symantec Corporation* - www.symantec.com
*
Industry Underwriters
Alt-N - www.altn.com
Cisco Systems - www.cisco.com
Digital Resolve -
www.digital-resolve.net
Goodmail Systems -
www.goodmailsystems.com
Habeas - www.habeas.com
Iconix - www.iconix.com
Internet Identity -
www.internetidentity.com
LashBack - www.lashback.com
Message Systems (formally OmniTI) -
www.messagesystems.com
Port 25 - www.port25.com
Return Path -
www.returnpath.biz
Sendmail - www.sendmail.com *
StrongMail -
www.strongmail.com
Yesmail - www.yesmail.com
Organization & Media Underwriters
Anti-Phishing working Group (APWG) -
www.antiphishing.org
ClickZ Networks - www.clickz.com
Experience Email Council (eec) -
www.emailexperience.org
Interactive Advertising Bureau - www.iab.net
Media Post - www.mediapost.com
Messaging News Magazine -
www.messagingnews.com
Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group, (MAAWG) -
www.maawg.org
SC Magazine - www.scmagazine.com
TRUSTe - www.truste.org
US Chamber of Commerce - www.uschamber.org
AOTA Service Providers
AgeLight LLC - www.agelight.com
blast! PR - www.blastpr.com
Meeting Solutions Inc -
www.meetingsolutionsinc.com
US Techs - www.ustechs.com
*Founding Member Companies
Revised March 25, 2007
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