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Australian ISPs Adopt Industry Security Standard
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:27:15 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/Australian-ISPs-Adopt-Industry-Security-Standard-421378/ By Brian Prince eWEEK.com 2010-06-09 A new industry standard for Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in Australia lays out how ISPs should respond to zombie computers and attacks on the country's critical infrastructure. An Australian collective of technology firms has developed an industry code in cooperation with the country's government to help Internet Service Providers improve cyber-security. The Internet Industry Association's (IIA) newly developed "icode" (PDF) provides a voluntary industry framework for how ISPs can respond to security issues affecting customers and how ISPs can go about dealing with the government in the event of a cyber-emergency. In the event a computer has been infected and is being used as a zombie, ISPs can temporarily quarantine the customer.s service, holding them within a "walled garden with links to relevant resources that will assist them until they are able to restore the security of their machine," the document reads. In the case of a computer being used as a spam source, restrictions can be applied to outbound e-mail. [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.com
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