Recently, email service provider Epsilon reported a "data breach" that potentially impacts those companies who use Epsilon to send email to their customers, exposing them to possible unwanted emails. In view of this incident, we want to share our rigorous email security program with you.

As you may know, ExactTarget is our email service provider - and its commitment to security is a key reason why we decided to engage with ExactTarget to deliver our email programs. We remain confident that Exact Target is continually taking the right measures to protect our email information assets. In fact, in ExactTarget's words: "We have never been more confident in our security measures and have not experienced a breach."

ExactTarget has made available detailed documentation on its security program which follows below:

"Security is our top priority. And we are very confident that we have industry-leading security in place. This has been confirmed by multiple third-party experts and many of the most security-minded organizations in the world, who are our clients.

Security is a multi-faceted, continuously-evolving set of technologies, policies, and controls. As such, there is not a single answer to the question of preventing a security incident. Rather, a collection of safeguards are required. Our security strategy centers on securing the physical locations that house our servers, strong access controls into our systems, protecting your data from malicious or accidental losses, and preventing unauthorized access to the ExactTarget platform.

Our security is under continuous review and assessment by multiple third party security professionals, including..." Click to read more

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