-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ITU botnet mitigation toolkit - draft background paper published Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:45:16 -0800 From: suresh@private (Suresh Ramasubramanian) To: declan@private CC: dave@private Dave and Declan The ITU botnet toolkit is an ITU-D effort to bring together different groups, different sets of best practices and different existing efforts in botnet mitigation and general spam / cybersecurity work that focuses on botnet mitigation, and create a practical implementation of these focused on developing countries. The toolkit website is at http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/projects/botnet.html A background paper on the toolkit (still draft) is at http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/docs/itu-botnet-mitigation-toolkit-background.pdf The background paper, once published, will form the basis of at least two nationwide pilot projects over 2008, involving local, regional and international groups from government, industry, independent researchers, NGOs etc. The first is going to be in Malaysia in association with the Malaysian government, in 1Q2008. The background paper is structured to provide a short "toolkit" of approaches, with three large appendices describing policy, technology and social initiatives that can be followed. There will, inevitably, be some crossover between these three appendices, and again inevitably, people familiar with one section of the paper may at the most be broadly aware of issues in the other sections. That's perfectly fine and the paper was structured keeping that fact in mind. I am consulting for ITU on this project over 2008, wrote the background paper and will be helping to coordinate the implementation of these pilots. I have sent earlier draft versions of this to quite a few people (among them several IP / politech readers) and I guess now, closer to the beginning of this project, it is time to reach out to a broader audience. Comments, suggestions, offers to help / participate in this are welcome. thanks suresh _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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