SAN FRANCISCO, August 19, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Demonstrating
their commitment to work with the international online industry to
protect consumers, Facebook and Tata Communications, a leading
global telecom service provider that is part of India's Tata Group, have joined the Messaging
Anti-Abuse Working Group at the organization's highest membership
level and will serve on the MAAWG Board of Directors. MAAWG is the
largest global organization targeting spam and other messaging
exploits, and the new members will augment its presence both among
social networking platforms and in emerging countries.
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MAAWG has grown into an industry conduit for bringing together
messaging experts working to curb spam and online abuse from around
the world, from all aspects of the industry, and on all types of
devices. Facebook has developers in over 180 countries and over 500
million users, including 150 million users actively accessing their
accounts through mobile devices. The social media site will play an
active role in MAAWG work, interfacing with other members to
develop industry practices to safeguard end-users.
Tata Communications is a global telecom service provider based
in India, part of the US$70.8 billion Tata Group, and it delivers
managed solutions to global enterprises, service providers and
Indian consumers. Along with its pan-continent network, it has a
leadership position in emerging markets and will share its broad
perspective as MAAWG develops best practices and in the
organization's public policies discussions.
"Both Facebook and Tata Communications will be engaging with
other important social media platforms, global ISPs and the
diversified constituents within the industry, to not only make sure
the online world is open and connected, but to also ensure it
remains as safe as possible for consumers," said Michael O'Reirdan,
MAAWG Chairman.
Joe Sullivan, Facebook's Chief
Security Officer added, "Our deep commitment to site security
requires the development of robust technologies and active
engagement with organizations like MAAWG. We look forward to
collaborating with the entire working group to aggressively fight
messaging abuse."
The MAAWG 20th General Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Oct. 4-6 will be an important venue for
furthering this work. Attended by messaging and security
specialists, public policy representatives and academic experts, it
will feature professional training sessions open to the industry
and multi-track presentations on global legislation, technology and
policies to combat messaging abuse. The focus will be on
participation in public policy and government initiatives along
with ongoing committee work.
About the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG)
The Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) is where the
messaging industry comes together to work against spam, viruses,
denial-of-service attacks and other online exploitation. MAAWG
(http://www.MAAWG.org) represents over one billion mailboxes from
some of the largest network operators worldwide. It is the only
organization addressing messaging abuse holistically by
systematically engaging all aspects of the problem, including
technology, industry collaboration and public policy. MAAWG
leverages the depth and experience of its global membership to
tackle abuse on existing networks and new emerging services. It
also works to educate global policy makers on the technical and
operational issues related to online abuse and messaging.
Headquartered in San Francisco,
Calif., MAAWG is an open forum driven by market needs and
supported by major network operators and messaging providers.
About Facebook
Founded in February 2004,
Facebook's mission is to give people the power to share and make
the world more open and connected. Anyone can sign up for Facebook
and interact with the people they know in a trusted environment.
Facebook is a privately held company and is headquartered in
Palo Alto, Calif.
About Tata Communications
Tata Communications is a leading global provider of a new world
of communications. With a leadership position in emerging markets,
Tata Communications leverages its advanced solutions capabilities
and domain expertise across its global and pan-India network to deliver managed solutions to
multi-national enterprises, service providers and Indian consumers.
The Tata Global Network includes one of the most advanced and
largest submarine cable networks, a Tier-1 IP network, with
connectivity to more than 200 countries across 400 PoPs, and nearly
1 million square feet of data center and collocation space
worldwide.
Tata Communications' depth and breadth of reach in emerging
markets includes leadership in Indian enterprise data services,
leadership in global international voice, and strategic investments
in operators in South Africa
(Neotel), Sri Lanka (Tata
Communications Lanka Limited) and Nepal (United Telecom Limited). Tata
Communications Limited is listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and
the National Stock Exchange of India and its ADRs are listed on the New York
Stock Exchange. (NYSE: TCL) http://www.tatacommunications.com.
Media Contact: Linda Marcus, APR,
+1-714-974-6356, LMarcus@astra.cc, Astra Communications
MAAWG Board of Directors: AOL; AT&T (NYSE: T); Cloudmark,
Inc.; Comcast (Nasdaq: CMCSA); Cox Communications; Eloqua;
Facebook; France Telecom (NYSE and Euronext: FTE); Goodmail
Systems; Openwave Systems (Nasdaq: OPWV); Tata Communications
(NYSE: TCL); Time Warner Cable; Verizon Communications; and Yahoo!
Inc.
MAAWG Full Members: 1&1 Internet AG; Apple Inc.; Bizanga
LTD; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Constant Contact (Nasdaq: CTCT);
e-Dialog; Edatis; Experian CheetahMail; Genius.com; Internet
Initiative Japan (IIJ Nasdaq: IIJI); McAfee Inc.; PayPal; Return
Path, Inc.; Spamhaus; Sprint; Symantec; YouSendIt; and Zynga,
Inc.
A complete member list is available at
http://www.maawg.org/about/roster.