Archive for November, 2011

  • Agari Buzz Episode #1: Interview with CEO Patrick Peterson

    Nov 30, 2011 | Read more

    In this Episode, Daniel interviews Agari CEO Patrick Peterson about the history, core mission, and services of the company.

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  • Cisco Startup Agari Stops Spam, Phishers With Cloud Email Security Service

    Nov 30, 2011 | eWeek

    Agari emerges from stealth mode to announce Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL are using its technology to filter out malicious emails before they reach the user.

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  • Start-up Agari debuts with security to stop fake e-mail, phishing attacks

    Nov 30, 2011 | NetworkWorld

    Start-up Agari debuts today with cloud-based e-mail security services aimed at allowing enterprises and e-commerce companies to identify and block fake and spoofed e-mail exploiting their legitimate business domain names to conduct scams and phishing attacks.

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  • How Cisco Spinoff Agari Aims To Finally Kill Phishing

    Nov 30, 2011 | Forbes

    As head of security technologies at the startup Ironport in 2007, Patrick Peterson was once so obsessed with tracking a group of drug-hawking spammers that he spent day and night in front of a computer, following leads and ignoring his administrative duties until he flunked a performance review and lost half his bonus. Four years, [...]

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  • Google, Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL join Agari anti-phishing service

    Nov 30, 2011 | CNET

    The major Web-based e-mail providers are joining forces with an anti-fraud startup, which is launching tomorrow, to help keep phishing messages out of peoples’ inboxes.

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  • Senders & Receivers of the World Unite!

    Nov 30, 2011 | Read more

    Welcome to the Agari Blog! As you’ve probably learned by now, Agari launched earlier this week with remarkable reception as the world’s largest brands, email carriers, and technology partners joined together to put and end to phishing and fraud. The first one billion mailboxes in the AGARI Email Trust Network at AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! [...]

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  • AGARI Unites World’s Largest Mail Carriers — AOL, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! — to Help Protect Brands, Help Put an End to Phishing and Better Secure Email for 1 Billion Mailboxes

    Nov 29, 2011 | Press Release

    AGARI Revolutionizes Email with Trust, Unmatched Cloud Collaboration and Insights to Prevent Fraud and Shut Down Phishing Forever

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  • A Short Big Data Story

    Nov 02, 2011 | The Cornice

    A quick story to share. Some time back, the First Round team was having some difficulty getting our email delivered. Our messages weren’t winding up in Junk folders, they weren’t showing up at all. So, I reached out to former colleagues who were now with the major webmail brands. I wanted to know whether or [...]

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  • Authenticate This!

    Nov 02, 2011 | Forbes

    I have been working in email security for more than a decade, so one would think I might know better.  But last week, I got an email “from” FedEx telling me my package wasn’t able to be delivered.  It wasn’t until after I had clicked on the link that I realized I hadn’t sent a [...]

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  • Email Security Startup Agari Raises $2.5M From Alloy, Battery, Greylock And First Round

    Nov 02, 2011 | TechCrunch

    Stealthy email security startup Agari has raised $2.5 million in Series A funding led by Alloy Ventures with participation from Battery Ventures, First Round Capital and Greylock Partners.

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