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* Innovative spam attacking system awarded by BT retail *
LONDON, 15 JANUARY 2008: StreamShield, part
of Detica Group plc (DCA.L), has been awarded the 2007 BT Supplier
Innovation Award for supplying BT’s retail division with a system for
tracking down and disrupting professional spammers on the BT broadband
network. StreamShield was selected by a panel of BT judges from a
list of 130 companies as the winning supplier. Monique
Shivanandan, Managing Director of BT Retail Service Design at BT
Retail, comments: “We are delighted to award StreamShield the BT
Supplier Innovation Award 2007 in recognition of their highly
successful and innovative achievement.”
Approximately 80 per cent of e-mails, equivalent to
6.5 billion emails a day, are spam. These unwanted emails are not
only generated by professional spammers, but also by “botnets”, where
the PCs of unsuspecting customers are secretly infected with rogue
software to form a network that generates vast quantities of unwanted
spam. These infected machines can be used in turn to attack other PCs
and websites.
The StreamShield system is currently processing more
than 600 million emails a day for BT, generating detailed intelligence
on the location and size of spam-related problems originating from the
BT network. This allows BT to focus on contacting customers and
helping them to rid their PCs of spam infections, thereby preventing
possible identity fraud and virus infection. Shivanandan
continues: “Spam is a global menace, causing annoyance, disruption and
potential financial loss to Internet users. BT now has an innovative,
cutting-edge solution that allows us to tackle this issue proactively
and create a hostile environment for professional spammers”.
Tom Black, Chief Executive, Detica, adds:
“StreamShield developed this spam-attacking solution, officially named
Content Forensics, with large Internet Service Providers such as BT in
mind. We are delighted to receive this award from BT as
acknowledgement of our unique approach to tackling the scourge of spam”. |
