About this episode
The episode discusses the cultural divide between business and technical communities in addressing online abuse, featuring guest Alban Kwan from the Trusted Notifier Network.
This time on PING I'm talking to Alban Kwan from the Trusted Notifier Network (TNN). I caught up with Alban at the APRICOT/APNIC61 meeting held recently in Jakarta, where Alban was attending the policy and governance sessions with a particular interest in the problem of online abuse mitigation. Alban is interested in bridging the gap between the business and technical communities in this problem space. When it comes to crafting a response, business tends to focus on brand integrity and the real world cost of mitigation when their products and services are abused, used for spam or fraud or suffer inbound attacks against them. The technical community tends to be focused on things like network traffic level views of problems, found in deep packet inspection, running honey nets, looking at firewall logs and in turn, tends to drive security activities in network technology. It's a very real cultural divide. We've discussed the more technical, packet-level distributed threats on previous episodes of ping. We've talked with Adli Wahid from APNIC and with Leslie Daigle from Global Cyber Alliance, discussing honey nets which present as low barrier attack targets and can measure the levels…
People in this episode
Host: APNIC
Guest: Alban Kwan
Topics covered
- online abuse
- policy and governance
- business and technical communities
- network security
- cultural divide
Keywords
- online abuse
- Trusted Notifier Network
- APRICOT
- network security
- business integrity
- technical community
- governance issues
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Trusted Notifier Network, APNIC, Global Cyber Alliance
Places: Jakarta
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