Epsilon beefs up email security 92 days after data breach

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.dmnews.com/epsilon-beefs-up-email-security-92-days-after-data-breach/article/206307/

By Juan Martinez
Direct Marketing News
June 29, 2011

Marketing services firm Epsilon has added new security enhancements to 
its email marketing platform in collaboration with Verizon Business, 
Epsilon president and CEO Bryan Kennedy told Direct Marketing News on 
June 28. The new features include enhanced protection for Epsilon's 
information technology (IT) infrastructure and the ability to track 
malicious IP addresses.

“Epsilon has always taken security seriously and consistently surpassed 
established industry standards and requirements,” Kennedy said in an 
email. “This partnership demonstrates our ongoing commitment to protect 
our clients and their customers from cyber attacks.”

Epsilon said it will also launch access restrictions through its IP 
certification requirements in the third quarter that will allow only 
white-listed IP addresses access to Epsilon's email platform.

“Certifying or white-listing IP addresses means that we require clients 
to register physical points of access to the platform in advance of 
their ability to utilize the platform from those locations,” Kennedy 
explained. “While this is a trade-off in the kind of flexibility clients 
have requested in the past, we believe it is a logical approach that 
enhances security, and clients understand that.”

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