San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) September 3, 2008

Mailshell Inc., a leading provider of email reputation, anti-spam and anti-phishing engines for OEMs today announced the availability of email security SDKs and reputation data service for Cavium Networks’ (NASDAQ:CAVM) OCTEON multi-core MIPS64 processor family. By making Mailshell’s engines available for these processors, OEM vendors using Cavium’s OCTEON processors can easily integrate ‘Powered by Mailshell’ filters for protection from email-borne threats. Cavium Networks is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing for networking, communications, storage and security applications.

“OCTEON is being widely used by Tier-1 networking, telecom and wireless equipment OEMs building intelligent and content aware systems,” said Amer Haider, director of strategic marketing, Cavium Networks. “We are pleased to work with Mailshell to offer OEMs an excellent and ready-to-use email filtering solution and reputation service on our OCTEON processor family.”

Mailshell’s SDKs provide complete and consistently accurate protection against fraud, phishing and spam. The SDKs are available on more than 10 operating systems and require as little as 32KB of code on the device. They are embedded into security, networking and messaging products including software appliances, SaaS platforms, gateway security software, desktop security suites, UTM, mobile devices, wireless access points, firewalls, modems, and other low memory devices.

“We’re seeing increasing demand among security and networking providers for quantifiable reputation-based solutions,” said Tonny Yu, CEO of Mailshell. “Cavium Networks OCTEON processor family provides a high performance and scalable platform for networking vendors’ security systems. Adding support for Cavium’s processors will reduce integration cost and time for our OEM partners.”

Mailshell LiveFeed quantifies reputation via advanced statistical models, and unlike other reputation services that provide only a binary ‘good’ or ‘bad’ rating, LiveFeed provides granular trust ratings with automated adjustment over time as reputations change. By focusing reputation on mathematical models, rather than simply an ‘IP black list’ approach, LiveFeed provides more accurate, highly scalable detection.

Mailshell also provides superior detection of bots, computers that are surreptitiously hijacked without the owner’s knowledge. Mailshell tracks, quantifies and updates reputations in real-time via data collected from its own traps, OEM partners who upload anonymous data statistics from their applications, a collaborative network of end users, and a network of data sharing partnerships.

For more information about Cavium Networks please visit http://www.caviumnetworks.com.

Mailshell is the leading provider of email reputation, anti-spam and anti-phishing engines for OEMs. Mailshell’s software helps its OEM partners immediately generate new revenue, up-sell existing products to new customers and minimize related engineering and support costs. More than 6,000 companies and more than 15 million consumers rely on ‘Powered by Mailshell’ filters to protect them from email-borne threats worldwide. For more information: http://www.mailshell.com.

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The Acalis CPU872, a Field Programmable MultiCore (FPMC), directly addresses the need for a tamper-resistant, trusted supply of high-performance processing devices for use in vital applications. Fabricated at the IBM Trusted Foundry in cooperation with the Trusted Access Program Office and U.S. Navy sponsorship, the Acalis CPU872 combines defenses against malicious circuits and other Trojan horses, and effective and resilient run-time techniques to protect against tampering and reverse-engineering without impacting performance.

Industries such as financial, military & aerospace, and communications, along with many others that maintain critical infrastructure, are increasingly concerned with the security of their computer systems. Of growing concern is the threat that systems containing foreign-made components, in some cases of an unknown origin, are vulnerable to tampering. According to the Defense Science Board Task Force report on High Performance Microchip Supply released in February 2005, recent shifts in the electronics supply structure open such components to the insertion of “Trojan horses” and other unauthorized design inclusions. These backdoor features could be used to disrupt operations or obtain confidential and proprietary information. Other areas of concern include loss of intellectual property through reverse engineering and interruption of the supply chain to critical applications. Recently, a group led by a Princeton University computer security researcher demonstrated a simple method of stealing encrypted information. As reported by The New York Times, February 22, 2008, the group used a can of air to freeze the memory chips and special pattern-recognition software to identify security keys. Their technique compromises industry standards such as “Trusted Computing” hardware as well as utilities contained in the most popular operating systems.

In addition to integral security features, the highly integrated SoC is not susceptible to the Princeton type attacks. The device contains dual high performance PowerPC® 440 and FPU cores, embedded DRAM, and utility compute engines to accelerate computation of complex algorithms, communications, and synchronization between processors. This integration enables designers to build systems with significantly fewer components resulting in increased reliability and decreased power, cost and area. Its low power consumption makes the CPU872 the most efficient high performance PowerPC offering in the industry.

“Our customers and partners are involved in high value critical computing applications and have serious security concerns about the source, content, design knowledge, and management of critical computing resources such as processors, FPGAs, memory devices, and integrated systems. Ubiquitous high value computing infrastructure such as financial, transportation, military, process control and other embedded systems have become the targets of equally sophisticated and well financed criminal, subversive, and clandestine threats. As the flow of design knowledge has spread around the world, the ability and the willingness to insert a variety of trap doors, time dependent hidden features, Trojan horses and other such hard-to-detect schemes directly into silicon has become equally widespread,” said Ed King, CEO and Founder of CPU Tech. He continued, “The Acalis CPU872 is a fully trusted design from a tightly controlled trusted process that is directly integrated into the Trusted Foundry at IBM.”

“The anti-tamper, anti-reverse engineering and firewall capabilities contained in the CPU872 SoC will help enable the DoD to preserve its investment in critical technologies,” said Charles Caposell, U.S. Navy Program Manager. “The combination of security and high performance in a standard Commercial-Off-the-Shelf (COTS) device will be of immense value to the DoD and other security-minded organizations.”

The CPU872 is an industrial grade device with a minimum ten year life span. Samples are available to qualified organizations.