Keynote Speaker: The good guys fight back: The APWG phishing and E-crimeUpdate

Security workshop / 3rd COLARIS

Monday — October 15th, 2007 09:40

This presentation will discuss the current state of electronic fraud and describe recent initiatives in the APWG to reduce the amount of phishing, fraud, and e-crime on the Internet.

These initiatives include working with ICANN to fortify the DNS system against use by phishing, a federated contact system for responders, and improvements to the APWG data collection system that includes malware, bot, and other crimeware data.

The latter part of the presentation will describe how to tell if you are being phished, identify proper response activities, and suggest best practices to reduce your exposure to phishing and fraud.

Presenters

• Patrick Cain (Anti-Phishing Working Group, US)

  Patrick Cain is a Research Fellow of the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), and the President of The Cooper-Cain Group, Inc, a computer and Internet security consultancy. He has been associated with information security development and operations for over twenty years. He was previously the Security Advocate in the Office of the Chief Technology Officer, at Genuity Inc., a large Internet Service Provider. He is a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), a Certified Information System Manager (CISM), and an associate member of the American Bar Association.

  Mr. Cain participated in the FSTC Counter-Phishing project, is a research member of the Anti-Phishing Working Group, and currently leads the effort in the IETF to standardize phishing and electronic crime reports. He is the co-chair of the IETF Operations Security Working Group and has participated in a US White House working group identifying and addressing the vulnerabilities of the Internet.