What is TrustedSource?
The TrustedSource™ Portal data is powered by McAfee’s TrustedSource™ global threat correlation engine. In addition to general ISP spam data, which is largely consumer centric, TrustedSource™ receives and analyzes billions of messages per month from McAfee’s network of sensors deployed to protect enterprise traffic, messaging and web gateways across 82 countries globally, collecting reputation data for URLs, IP, Domains and Messages. Like a virtual credit agency, TrustedSource™ assigns a reputation score and further classifies senders as good, bad or suspicious based on an in-depth analysis by processing more than a dozen behavior attributes to profile each sender. TrustedSource™ is the first and only reputation system to combine traffic data, whitelists, blacklists and network characteristics with the unparalleled strength of McAfee’s global customer base. As opposed to other offerings that do not integrate reputation into the spam scoring, TrustedSource™ data provides the most accurat
The TrustedSource™ Portal data is powered by McAfee’s TrustedSource™ global threat correlation engine that receives and analyzes billions of queries per month from McAfee’s network of sensors deployed to protect consumer and enterprise network traffic across 120 countries globally, collecting and correlating threat data for URLs, IP addresses, domains and content. TrustedSource™ assigns a reputation score and further classifies network identities and content with a risk level based on an in-depth highly sophisticated analysis derived by processing thousands of behavior attributes to profile each network trafic sender, website, domain or content. TrustedSource™ is the first and only reputation system to combine traffic data, routing, IP/domain registration data and network characteristics with the unparalleled breadth of McAfee’s global customer base.
