ITU botnet mitigation toolkit - draft background paper published

[David Farber <dfarber () cs cmu edu>]

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From: suresh () hserus net (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Date: November 21, 2007 8:45:16 PM EST
To: declan () well com
Cc: dave () farber net
Subject: ITU botnet mitigation toolkit - draft background paper  
published

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


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