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

[Barry Raveendran Greene]

I'll see if he is open to a meeting the next time I'm in DC. It would be
worth it to more constructively plug TATA into the operational a security
community.

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> From: nsp-security-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:nsp-security-
> bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Hank Nussbacher
> Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:13 PM
> To: nsp-security at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [nsp-sec] Major ISPs can remove botnets, malware, CISO says
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> http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/interview/0,289202,sid14_gci1
> 456728,00.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
> 
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