Like any critical piece of infrastructure, e-mail has its issues. Spammers still clog traffic on the worldwide web, and online con-men are starting to become more sophisticated in their attacks. Any organization maintaining a messaging system must balance their ability to defend against those abuses, while at the same time reliably delivering an ever-increasing volume of e-mails.

In response to those issues, Microsoft is participating in the second annual Email Authentication Implementation Summit this week in Chicago. The summit is aimed at helping companies and industry organizations find ways to protect their businesses, their brands and their customers from unwanted and malicious e-mails, while at the same time letting legitimate mail do its job.

To get a look inside the agenda at the Email Authentication Summit II, PressPass sat down with Craig Spiezle, director of Microsoft’s Technology and Strategy Group, along with Michael Zaneis, director of Congressional and Public Affairs for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and John Curtis, senior security architect for Internet Systems at Bell Canada.