TUESDAY
Jan 30 |
Public Panels &
Discussions |
Peacock
Court (Lobby Level)
|
| 4:00-4:15pm |
Welcome &
Introductions
with Charles Stiles (AOL) |
| 4:15-5:00pm |
Keynote
by Howard A. Schmidt
Howard A. Schmidt, President &
CEO of R & H Security Consulting LLC, has had a long and
distinguished career in defense, law enforcement and corporate security
spanning almost 40 years.
He has served as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
and Chief Security Strategist for online auction giant eBay, CISO, CSO
and forming Microsoft's Trustworthy Computing Program. He has also
served in the position of Chief Security Strategist for the US CERT
Partners Program for the National Cyber Security Division, DHS. He
retired from the White House after 31 years of public service in local
and federal government.
He was appointed by President Bush as the Vice Chair of the
President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and as the Special
Adviser for Cyberspace Security for the White House in December 2001
and co-author of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace.
See above for additional information.
|
| 5:00-6:00pm |
Believe
in the User
Your Users Can Help Catch Spam
user expectations, reasonable or otherwise;
the importance of user feedback in spam decisions;
other ways to get your users involved
Moderated by Jonathan Curtis (Bell Canada) |
| 6:00-10:00pm |
MAAWG Night Out:
Casino Royale
An evening of high stakes entertainment, featuring dinner, drinks,
and casino tournament competitions
Sponsored by Symantec and Openwave |
WEDNESDAY
Jan 31 |
Public Panels &
Discussions |
| Room of the Dons
(Lobby Level) |
Peacock Court (Lobby
Level) |
| 7:45-1:00 |
Registration
in the Florentine & Garden rooms on the Lobby Level |
| 8:00-9:30 |
Breakfast
in the Barclay & Willard on the Second Level, and the Lobby
Terrace on the Lobby Level |
| 9:30-9:45 |
|
MAAWG Welcome
with Charles Stiles (AOL) |
| 9:45-noon |
|
Increases in Spam:
What's Really Going On?
Real World Metrics & Latest Trends
-
Part 1 - MAAWG Metrics Program
- 4th and 5th quarterly reports and trends over history of
program
-
comparison to vendor metrics -- Matt Hartwell-Herrero (Symantec)
- overall stats
- raw # of spam messages
- spam categories
- % of spam being blocked overall
- Top Spamming Countries and Cities over time -- Vipul Ved
Prakash (Cloudmark)
- Japan spam volume metrics and trends -- Shuji Sakuraba
(IIJ)
-
What MAAWG metrics are not measuring?
-
Delivery rates generally -- George Bilbrey (ReturnPath)
- are they up or down?
- are they being impacted by the recent surge in spam
volume?
- Are "open rates" being impacted? -- Ben Isaacson
(CheetahMail)
-
Part 2 - The Great Spam Increase(s) of 2006 and Outlook for 2007
- latest botnet research including the emergence of "Queen bots"
-- Scott Chasin (MX Logic
-
latest in image spam -- Patrick Peterson (Ironport)
- trends
- pump & dump stock manipulation
-
Part 3 - Call to Action
- What can/should the industry response be?
- What do we tell our users?
Moderated by Suzanne Morin (Bell Canada)
|
| noon-1:00 |
Lunch
in Willard on the Second Level, and the Top of the Mark |
| 1:00-2:30 |
Law Enforcement Collaboration and
Training
Experts within the private sector are invaluable in unravelling the
intricate webs of on-line activity being used to facilitate illegal
activities. In this fast paced environment, more efficient and
improved investigative technical tools and processes are
critical.
- update on activities undertaken since impromptu session last
fall
- investigative and technical obstacles faced when conducting
online investigations
- how can MAAWG members help?
- information transfer to enforcement officers investigating
on-line crimes
- initiate discussion of an investigative techniques program
targeted to law enforcement, which may be offered in conjunction with
a future MAAWG General Meeting
-
panelists include:
- Steven M. Wernikoff, Attorney, U.S. Federal Trade
Commission
- Lynne Perrault, Competition Law Officer (Canadian Competition
Bureau)
- Layla Michaud, Senior Competition Law Officer (Canadian
Competition Bureau)
Moderated by Serge Presseau (Industry Canada)
|
Reputation is Everything; Everything is
Reputation
Making Identity Validation Useful
-
What is sender reputation? -- Harry Katz (Microsoft)
- What does it apply to? (IP, domain, user?)
- Evolution of reputation systems
- Why is reputation important?
-
Deliverability and reputation -- George Bilbrey (Return Path)
- How reputation influences deliverability
- How reputation is measured
-
Domain reputation vs. IP reputation -- Len Shneyder (Yesmail)
- Similarities, differences
- Implications of each
- Future evolution
-
Using reputation -- Charles Stiles (AOL)
- How does a large ISP use reputation to help with spam
filtering?
-
Strengths of reputation systems -- Patrick Peterson (IronPort)
- benefits, differences from traditional content filtering
- discussion, audience Q&A
Moderated by Harry Katz (Microsoft)
|
| 2:30-2:45 |
Break sponsored by Return
Path
in the Lobby Terrace on the Lobby Level |
| 2:45-4:00 |
|
Think Globally,
Act Collaboratively
Roles & Impact of Anti-Abuse Organizations
- Dave Jevans (Anti-Phishing Working Group)
- Ross Schulman (Anti-Spyware Coalition)
- Suresh Ramasubramanian (Asia-Pacific Coalition Against
Unsolicited Commercial Email)
- Scott Hazen Mueller (Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial
Email, U.S.)
- TBD (Email Service Providers Coalition)
Moderated by Todd Herr (Time Warner Cable)
|
| 4:00-4:30 |
|
Closing
with Charles Stiles (AOL) |
InterContinental Mark
Hopkins