Hosters vs. Malware: Best Practices

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BLACKNIGHT Hosters vs. Malware: Best Practices Domain Registrar – Hosting Provider

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Presentation to the RIPE Anti-Abuse Working Group at RIPE63 in Vienna, November 2011. Covers adopting best practices to handle malware and other forms of network abuse for hosting providers and network operators

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Hosters vs. Malware: Best Practices

Domain Registrar – Hosting Provider

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Michele Neylon Founder / CEO Blacknight Contact: http://mneylon.tel @mneylon / @blacknight http://www.blacknight.com http://michele.me/blog

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Overview Why does it matter?

Some Guidelines / Best Practices

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Security Issues / Abuse are not going away

Apathy is NOT an option Self-regulation vs Regulation + govt

intervention Image / brand / reputation => You

value them, don’t you?

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Self-regulation => control remains with industry => retain control of destiny

Govt. Regulation => industry input possibly ignored => lose control of destiny

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Abuse desk best practices => not rocket science

No need to think – someone’s already developed some

StopBadware (http://stopbadware.org/best-practices/web-hosting-providers)

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StopBadWare Action Flow

1. Acknowledge report2. Evaluate report3. Pass on the report4. Mitigate5. Resolve6. Notify reporter7. Track8. Review

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