Expertise of New MAAWG Committee Chairs Advances Efforts Against Messaging Abuse
October 20 2009 - 10:30AM
PR Newswire (US)
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- The largest global industry
association tackling spam and other messaging concerns, the
Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) has announced committee
chair appointments for the coming year as it continues to develop
initiatives to improve messaging safeguards. The 2009-2010 chairs
will be instrumental in driving the organization's efforts to
curtail bots, spam, Web messaging abuse, mobile threats and
emerging vulnerabilities. (Logo:
http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20070124/CLW180LOGO ) MAAWG is
the only organization that systematically addresses all aspects of
messaging abuse by concurrently developing programs focused on
technology, industry collaboration and public policy. The
committees that foster work in these areas are: -- The MAAWG
Technical Committee, which organizes members' expertise around the
technology issues important to ISPs, network operators and other
members. The committee co-chairs are Michael Adkins of AOL and Pat
Peterson of Cisco IronPort Systems LLC. -- The MAAWG Collaboration
Committee sponsors projects that encourage industry cooperation by
exchanging best practices, sharing vital information and providing
tools to improve communications. The co-chairs are George Bilbrey
of Return Path, Heather Lord from an ISP-member company, and
Carsten Pinnow of 1&1 Internet, a European ISP. -- Maintaining
close links with regulatory authorities in various regions of the
world, the MAAWG Public Policy Committee promotes cooperation among
all the communities interested in maintaining online safety and
also produces the quarterly MAAWG email metrics reports. The
committee is co-chaired by ISP-member Susan Israel and Luc Mathan
from France Telecom Orange. -- The organization also appointed its
first MAAWG Public Policy Senior Advisor. Jean-Christophe Le Toquin
of Microsoft Europe, Middle East and Africa is working with the
MAAWG Public Policy Committee to promote global cooperation among
industry, law enforcement and public policy agencies to curtain
messaging abuse. Other appointments for the core MAAWG committees
are: -- Alex Bobotek of AT&T and Will Clurman of Cloudmark,
Inc., who are continuing as co-chairs of the MAAWG Wireless SIG.
The special interest group addresses methods to curtail existing
and new forms of mobile abuse. -- Continuing co-chair Dennis Dayman
of Eloqua Corp. is serving with new co-chairs Jeff Macdonald of
e-Dialog, and Tara Natanson of Constant Contact, Inc. in leading
the MAAWG Senders SIG. The SIG defines processes to improve
consent-based email reliability while ensuring sender
accountability and transparency. -- J.D. Falk of Return Path, Chris
Roosenraad of Time Warner Cable, and Charles Stiles of Goodmail
Systems, Inc. are continuing as co-chairs of the MAAWG Program
Committee, which develops the agenda for the three multi-track
educational meetings MAAWG holds each year. -- The MAAWG ISP Closed
Colloquium will continue to be led by Michael O'Reirdan. The ISPCC
organizes invitation-only sessions with network operators each day
of the three-day MAAWG General Meetings to discuss relevant topics.
"We are an effective organization because MAAWG has the breadth of
talent within our membership to delegate important leadership roles
to the appropriate messaging anti-abuse professionals from ISPs,
email providers, the volume senders community and anti-virus
vendors. The MAAWG Board appoints chairs to their positions because
they are highly-respected leaders in their fields and have
extensive experience in their specialties," said Jerry Upton, MAAWG
executive director. Committee Work at MAAWG General Meeting Many of
these committees have subcommittees addressing specific issues and
also have organized working sessions at the upcoming MAAWG 17th
General Meeting. To be held in Philadelphia on Oct. 26-28 with
additional training classes on Oct. 29, the meeting has 25 sessions
featuring technical experts, researchers, government agencies,
other Internet security and anti-abuse organizations, and panel
discussions on important security topics. The meeting keynote by
Brigadier General David B. Warner, director, communications and
information, chief information officer of the headquarters Air
Force Space Command at Peterson Air Force Base, will review the new
military cyber security initiative. The two MAAWG professional
development classes will cover Wireshark protocol analysis and
provide media and business communications guidelines. More
information is available at http://www.maawg.org/. About the
Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG) The Messaging Anti-Abuse
Working Group (MAAWG) is where the messaging industry comes
together to work against spam, viruses, denial-of-service attacks
and other online exploitation. MAAWG (http://www.maawg.org/)
represents almost one billion mailboxes from some of the largest
network operators worldwide. It is the only organization addressing
messaging abuse holistically by systematically engaging all aspects
of the problem, including technology, industry collaboration and
public policy. MAAWG leverages the depth and experience of its
global membership to tackle abuse on existing networks and new
emerging services. Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., MAAWG is
an open forum driven by market needs and supported by major network
operators and messaging providers. Media Contact: Linda Marcus,
APR, 714-974-6356, , Astra Communications MAAWG Board of Directors:
AOL; AT&T (NYSE:T); Cloudmark, Inc.; Comcast (NASDAQ:CMCSA);
Cox Communications; France Telecom (NYSE and Euronext: FTE);
Goodmail Systems; Openwave Systems (NASDAQ:OPWV); Time Warner
Cable; Verizon Communications; and Yahoo! Inc. MAAWG Full Members:
1&1 Internet AG; Bizanga LTD; Cisco Systems, Inc.; Constant
Contact (CTCT); e-Dialog; Eloqua Corporation; Experian CheetahMail;
Genius.com; Internet Initiative Japan, (IIJ NASDAQ: IIJI); McAfee
Inc.; NeuStar, Inc.; Return Path, Inc.; Spamhaus; Sprint; and
Symantec A complete member list is available at
http://www.maawg.org/about/roster.
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http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Messaging Anti-Abuse
Working Group (MAAWG) CONTACT: Linda Marcus, APR, +1-714-974-6356,
, of Astra Communications Web Site: http://www.maawg.org/
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