Internet Service Providers (ISP) are increasingly challenged by the cost and resources required to manage the growing phishing, malware and spoofing threats to their network and their subscribers.

The technology costs required to prevent fraudulent emails and the costs in processing, storage and customer care, once fraudulent email gets past the prevention mechanisms, are substantial and rising at an alarming rate. Potential loss of business and customer churn are also significant commercial consequences of phishing attacks. ISPs also face the responsibility to protect their subscribers from phishing attacks by blocking harmful email. Domain Assurance enables you to address this problem by blocking potentially harmful emails and phishing attacks at the email gateway.

RETURN PATH DOMAIN ASSURANCE

As a partner who is committed to improving email, reducing your costs and participating in a global effort to eradicate phishing and spoofing, Return Path brings its extensive email expertise and established relationships to enable ISPs to authenticate and block fraudulent emails at the gateway before they reach the mailbox.

The authentication results data that our ISP partners contribute to the Domain Assurance program provide comprehensive intelligence to legitimate senders, in order to help them audit their email authentication efforts and enable ISPs to be proactive in the prevention of phishing attacks. After auditing their email streams, participating senders authorize ISPs to block all unauthenticated messages purportedly coming from their domains. These unauthorized emails are the largest source of phishing attacks today. ISPs instantly realize the benefit from checking DKIM and SPF and blocking unauthenticated messages from Domain Assurance Registry listed domains.

DOMAIN ASSURANCE IS AN ANTI-PHISHING SOLUTION THAT ENABLES ISPs TO BLOCK MALICIOUS EMAILS AT THE GATEWAY.

• ISPs monitor and report on the authentication results of all mail claiming to be from domains registered in the Domain Assurance program.
• ISPs utilize the Domain Assurance Registry to block unauthenticated emails and stop phishing and spoofing at the gateway.

By enabling you to block phishing and spoofing messages at the gateway, we enable you to optimize your filtering and blocking policy implementations before potentially harmful email enters your network, helping you reduce your technology costs and optimize your resource utilization in the proactive prevention of costly phishing attacks.

FRONT LINE DEFENSE TO PROTECT ISP NETWORKS AT THE GATEWAY AND TO PREVENT COSTLY PROCESSING AND STORAGE OF FRAUDULENT EMAIL

HOW CAN YOU BENEFIT?

• By integrating the Domain Assurance Registry to your EMAIL security solutions, you will be able to optimize your authentication policy and protect your network against phishing attacks at the gateway, and thus protect your subscribers while reducing your costs.
• By contributing your authentication results data to our extensive ISP Partner data network, you can proactively contribute to the extent and accuracy of the domain registry and thus protect your subscribers from phishing and spoofing attacks.