CipherTrust was an anti-spam email software company based in Alpharetta, GA (a suburb of Atlanta), although they had offices around the world. To prevent E-mail spam, both end users and administrators of e-mail systems use various anti-spam techniques. Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email, or originally eMail, is a Store-and-forward method of writing sending receiving Alpharetta is an City in north Fulton County, Georgia, United States. Since August 2006 it is part of Secure Computing Corp. . The company was co-founded by Jay Chaudhry and Lawrence Hughes (both formerly with VeriSign). VeriSign Inc ( is an American company based in Mountain View California that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure including two of the [1] Chaudhry was CEO and Chairman of the Board.
Their main product is the highly successful IronMail™, a gateway appliance that prevents leaks from outgoing transfers through the e-mail applications whether they be HTTP or FTP transfers. To download is to receive data from a remote or central system such as a Webserver, FTP server, mail server or other similar systems Electronic mail, often abbreviated to e-mail, email, or originally eMail, is a Store-and-forward method of writing sending receiving Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP) is a Communications protocol for the transfer of information on the Internet. [2] CipherTrust is the current market leader in the e-mail security space according to Gartner and other industry analysts. CipherTrust has recently added a new product to secure Instant Messaging called IronIM™. Their CTO, Paul Judge, chaired the Anti-Spam Research Group (ASRG) of the IRTF. The Anti-Spam Research Group ( ASRG) is a research group within the Internet Research Task Force (IRTF dedicated to research into curbing spam on an Internet-wide The Internet Research Task Force (IRTF is a sister group to the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF One of the highly useful services provided by CipherTrust is tracking of Zombie computers, which are a primary source of Spam. A zombie computer (often shortened as zombie) is a computer attached to the Internet that has been compromised by a hacker, a Computer virus [3]
In August 2006, Secure Computing Corp. bought CipherTrust shares for 273. 6 M$ (2006 USD). In this purchase, the merged companies would still offer their exclusive technologies. [1]