[nsp-sec] Major ISPs can remove botnets, malware, CISO says

[Hank Nussbacher]

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/interview/0,289202,sid14_gci1456728,00.html

A few gems from this interview:

"Internet service providers have the ability to wipe nearly all malicious 
activity in their network without stepping on individual privacy and civil 
liberties, said Adam Rice, chief security officer at Mumbai-based Tata 
Communications Ltd., India's largest ISP"

"Q: Is there information sharing among the telecommunications providers in 
which you can share data on possible threats and the risks they pose on a 
regular basis?

A: ...As a matter of formal information sharing between us and other ISPs, 
we don't. There isn't a round-table or forum -- either formal or informal 
-- to share timely threat information."

"Q: Would a formal information sharing process be helpful or be inadequate 
for obvious business and competitive reasons?

Rice: I would suspect that like myself, the other ISPs really don't have a 
lot to share, when it comes to threats that are in that category to 
national security. We don't have an intelligence service like the federal 
government."

-Hank