YAIGAC (Yet Another International Group Against Cybercrime)

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rMslade () shaw ca>]

Actually, I should probably trademark that acronym, and start up a group calling 
itself that some time ...

An organization aims to become a platform for international cooperation on 
cyber security. The group calls itself the International Multilateral Partnership 
Against Cyber-Terrorism (IMPACT). The group’s forthcoming World Cyber 
Security Summit (WCSS), which will be part of the WCIT 2008, is an effort to 
raise IMPACT’s profile as an international platform for responding to and 
containing cyber attacks. On a conference call this morning, one of IMPACT’s 
principals described the organization’s mission as becoming a kind of “CDC 
[Centers for Disease Control] for cyber security.” The idea is that it will provide 
both a forum and an actual communications system for coordinating international 
responses to cyber attacks, especially when those attacks involve civilian 
networks as a target, a source, or both. The principal members of IMPACT are 
governments, but the organization will include experts from academia and the 
private sector, as well.  

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080514-new-international-group-to-
become-the-cdc-of-cyber-security.html 

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