follow-up: Epsilon beefs up email security 92 days after data breach

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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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