To provide enhanced protection from email-borne threats for Norman's full range of products, the leading supplier of data security software, Norman, announced its selection of the leading OEM provider of email reputation, anti-spam and anti-phishing technology, Mailshell. Including both its SDK and LiveFeed reputation service, Norman will integrate Mailshell's full engine into Norman's corporate solutions as well as its Norman Security Suite for home users. More than 6,000 companies and 15 million consumers who rely on 'Powered by Mailshell' filters to block spam and phishing will be joined by Norman's customers.

Cice president of marketing and business development at Norman, Audun Lodemel, commented: "Mailshell's engine combines superior detection rates with the best flexibility and ease-of-use among OEM solutions". "Mailshell's current solution, along with future development roadmap, ensures that we can provide true best-of-breed functionality to our customers."

Norman's customers will benefit, in addition to Norman's existing array of technologies, from Mailshell's email reputation service that provides superior detection from spam bots, computers that are surreptitiously hijacked by spammers to send spam without the owner's knowledge, called LiveFeed. Via data collected from its own spam traps, OEM partners who upload anonymous data statistics from their applications, a collaborative network of end users, and a network of data sharing partnerships, Mailshell tracks, quantifies and updates reputations in real-time.

The first solution specifically designed to quantify reputation via advanced statistical models is Mailshell LiveFeed. LiveFeed, unlike other reputation services that provide only a binary 'good' or 'bad' rating, provides granular trust ratings with automated adjustment over time as reputations change. LiveFeed provides, by focusing reputation on mathematical models, rather than simply a 'black list' approach, more accurate, highly scalable, language-agnostic detection.