ISC announces a new way of delivering domain reputation data

Written by Rod Rasmussen Thursday, 12 August 2010 17:49

Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has announced that it would get involved in the growing market for DNS reputation data by creating standard mechanisms for reputation providers to send data to people who run recursive nameservers.  The standard is called DNS Response Policy Zones (RPZ) and will be implemented as extensions to BIND, the most popular DNS server software in use today. (ISC publishes and maintains the BIND codebase.)  These RPZ’s, says ISC’s Paul Vixie, would allow “cooperating good guys to provide and consume reputation information about domain names.”  Note that ISC has also definitively announced it is only providing a standard and will not, at any time, be distributing any reputation data itself.  Since the announcement however, there has been a lot of passion from people debating the desirability of the mere "existence" of a mechanism like the RPZ’s on multiple blogs that cover this sort of thing (here and here, for example).

IID Announces Membership in FIRST

Written by Heidi Harris Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:00

IID is excited to announce our new membership in the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST), a recognized global leader in incident response. FIRST was founded in 1990 and has since been active in bringing incident response teams together to share ideas on security issues affecting the industry. As a member, IID will collaborate with these security experts and teams, sharing insights and operational expertise on cyber threats.

FIRST efforts in cyber security include a global initiative to improve best practices in preventing and resolving online attacks, as well as on-going cooperation within the industry and amongst experts to promote a more secure online world through the sharing of experience, expertise and information.

As a member of several industry working groups, IID works both to protect and advance the cause of people and organizations victimized by on-line crime, and we look forward to similarly participating in the FIRST community.

See the official release for more information, and for a list of IID’s industry group affiliations, see Who We Work With.