Ecert Inc.

ecert is an email trust authority that ensures trust in, and reduces fraud against, critical email traffic for financial institutions, major brands, and government agencies. ecert works as a trusted intermediary between senders and receivers to accredit domains that send email, certify their traffic to defend against email fraud ("phishing") and provide critical insight, monitoring, and enforcement tools. ecert was founded in 2008 as a collaboration between large financial service companies and major isps to improve security against email phishing and is backed by up to $8 million in funding from warburg pincus. ecert is the only service of its kind in operation, and was selected to provide this capability for the u.s. financial services sector by financial industry consortiums, the financial services-information sharing & analysis center (fs-isac) and bits, the technology policy division of the financial services roundtable. ecert is rapidly expanding its network of isp and security i