M3AAWG Tackles Emerging Security Issues With Industry Collaboration; Also Announces 2014 Leadership - Seite 2

The committees are supported in their work by M³AAWG Senior Technical Advisors, who are recognized industry experts with in depth knowledge in relevant fields. The current advisors were all reappointed for 2014 and include Richard Clayton, Ph.D.; Dave Crocker; David Dagon, Ph.D.; John Levine, Ph.D.; April Lorenzen; and Joe St Sauver, Ph.D.

M³AAWG committees develop the organization's best practices and other work that fight abuse and malware. The 2014 committee chairs are:

• Academic Committee Co-Chairs Manos Antonakakis, Ph.D., Georgia Tech; and M³AAWG advisor Joe St Sauver, Ph.D.
• Awards Committee Co-Chairs Tami Forman, Return Path; and Neil Schwartzman, CAUCE
• Brand SIG Co-Chairs Mike Hammer, AG Interactive; and Franck Martin, LinkedIn
• Collaboration Committee Co-Chairs Christine Borgia, Return Path; Angela Knox, Cloudmark; and Sara Roper, CenturyLink
• Hosting SIG Co-Chairs M³AAWG Chairman Emeritus Michael O'Reirdan, Comcast; and Schwartzman
• Identity Management SIG Co-Chairs O'Reirdan and St Sauver
• M³AAWG Open Round Tables co-chairs Melinda Plemel, Return Path; and Jordan Rosenwald, Comcast
• Pervasive Monitoring SIG with co-chairs O'Reirdan and M³AAWG co-vice chairman Adkins
• Program Committee Co-Chairs Kurt Andersen, LinkedIn; Dennis Dayman, Oracle/Eloqua; and Len Shneyder
• Public Policy Committee Co-Chairs Frank Ackermann; Chris Boyer, AT&T; and Rudy Brioche, Comcast
• Senders Committee Co-Chairs Andrew Barrett, iContact, a Vocus company; and Tara Natanson, Constant Contact
• Technical Committee Co-Chairs Henry Stern, Farsight Security; and Jamie Tomasello, CloudFlare. For specific work areas, Chris Barton, and Severin Walker, Comcast, are co-chairs for messaging; Paul Ferguson, Internet Identity; and Maxim Weinstein, Sophos, are co-chairs for malware; M³AAWG Co-Chairman Bobotek and Antti Tikkanen, F-Secure, are mobile co-chairs
• Training Committee Co-Chairs Sam Masiello, Groupon; Vincent Schönau, Abusix; and Autum Tyr-Salvia, Marketo
• Voice and Telephony Abuse SIG Co-Chairs Bobotek and Mustaque Ahamad, Ph.D., Georgia Tech

Beyond driving discussions on relevant issues, the committee chairs also help shape the organization's three meetings each year. The M³AAWG 31^st General Meeting in Brussels will be a multi-track event with a full day of training. Industry experts will lead over 30 sessions on mobile security, technical discussions on pervasive monitoring, international public policy and other anti-abuse areas.