ITU botnet paper published in draft form, comments requested [priv]

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Subject: ITU botnet mitigation toolkit - draft background paper published
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 17:45:16 -0800
From: suresh <at> hserus.net (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
To: declan <at> well.com
CC: dave <at> farber.net

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