Subject: [saag] New Proposed RG Mailing List: SMART

From: Mark O <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 19:38:55 +0000

A new IRTF proposed research group mailing list has been created.

List address: smart at ietf.org

Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/smart/

To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/smart

Purpose:
SMART - Stopping Malware and Researching Threats
This email list will be used to discuss and stimulate research into how cyber attacks can be defended against in a world of encrypted data. It will be a place to present research on the effects, both positive and negative, of existing, proposed and newly-published Internet protocols and standards on methods use to defend against cyber attacks. Attacks and threats include, but are not limited to, malware, malicious domains, botnets, DDoS and phishing. The proposed research group will gather evidence from information security practitioners on methods used to defend against attacks and make this available to protocol designers. It will research and promote ways to deal with attacks efficiently and make the most of resources to do this. It will publish case studies into historic attacks, so the community can learn from previous attacks.

Those of you who attended the Security Area Advisory Group meeting at IETF 102 Montreal would have heard about some of the work the UK's National Cyber Security Centre has been doing to defend UK users against nationally significant cyber attacks and reduce the UK-hosted share of global phishing attempts by almost half. We hope that a new IRTF research group will become the home for Security Operations experts, academic researchers and the cyber defence industry to come together to share information and stimulate new research on techniques used to detect and prevent attacks, as new versions of protocols are developed and deployed.

There is more explanation and a draft charter for discussion on the SMART mailing list. Please join us over there!

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