Conference Round-up

World Wide Web Conference - Beijing, China - April 21 - 25, 2008

President and CTO Rod Rasmussen took part in a panel discussion on e-crime threats at this important annual conference.  The conference brings together academics, industry, and thought leaders on the future of the Internet to discuss the latest trends, issues, and goals for the World Wide Web.  This year's event focused largely on Web 2.0 applications and all the interesting new ways of delivering web content and services they are leading towards.  Among other things, the e-crime panel focused on the dangers inherent with these new technologies for creating unprecedented exposure to web users if security isn't a major component of developing websites with these new tools.  Financial institutions and companies that are building transactional interfaces for Facebook should take heed.  
While in Beijing, Rasmussen was also able to spend a day at the headquarters of CNNIC, the Chinese domain registry in charge of the .CN domain zone.  CNNIC is very interested in working to curb phishing and e-crime abuse.  Rod's visit was a major step in creating a close relationship with them to assist them in their efforts.