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This page identifies government, business and
academic bodies.
government
In the US a starting point is the National
Infrastructure Protection Centrer (NIPC),
an FBI affiliate.
In early 2000 the cybercrime
unit in the US Department of Justice released a useful report
on The Electronic Frontier: The Challenge of Unlawful Conduct
Involving the Use of the Internet.
Like its 1997 report
on The Availability of Bombmaking Information, the Frontier
document provides a perspective on online v offline behaviour and enforcement.
The Justice Department has also released a report
on Cyberstalking: A New Challenge for Law Enforcement and
Industry.
Within Australia numerous bodies grapple with
technology, commercial and government policy issues. Among those worthy of
notice are the AIC, GPKA, ISRC and CLC.
The Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC) has
sponsored a number of conferences on internet crime and
security.
The Government Public Key Authority (GPKA), established last year, deals with government
aspects of PKA. The Commonwealth's Project
Gatekeeper, with the same name as the very bad computer in a
recent Hollywood dot com exploitation flick, resulted from the 1998 National
Authentication Authority Discussion Paper and the Strategy
for an Australian National Electronic Authentication Framework,
the detailed report
by the National Public Key Infrastructure Working Party.
The Information Security Research
Centre (ISRC)
at Queensland University of Technology conducts research into cryptology, smart cards and other fields.
It also provides training courses for government and business.
The Communications Law Centre (CLC),
as the name suggests, is concerned with the Internet
and other communications law. It's a non-government body affiliated
with the University of NSW.
The Australian IT&T
Security Forum is an industry body that brings together major suppliers of information
technology & telecommunications security products and
applications.
As noted in other guides on this site,
the web has been a marvellous opportunity for federal and
state/territory bureaucrats to issue papers, develop guidelines and
otherwise roll digital logs.
The Commonwealth Department of
Communications, Information Technology & the Arts (DCITA)
- which embraces the National Office for the Information Economy (NOIE)
- concerns itself with 'policy' questions, leaving much of the
legislation and the mundane enforcement (bureaucrats are nothing if not
conscious of status) to the Attorney-General's (A-G's)
Department and specialist bodies such as the Australian Broadcasting
Authority (ABA) and Australian
Federal Police.
The latter, understandably, have a strong ethos of
digital 'stranger danger' - give us more money, more cars, more
computers to catch the villains (tho their success hitherto is
uncertain, to say the least).
The Department of Industry, Science
& Resources (DISR), a wet patch
in a dry climate, somewhat ineffectively spruiks the local encryption
hardware/software industry.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO),
the Privacy
Commissioner and Australian Customs Service (ACS) are among other significant government agencies squabbling
over bits of the digital pie. Comments on their role and operation
appear in the Taxation
and Privacy guides on this site.
Australia’s National Electronic
Authentication Council (NEAC)
has released two reports - Legal liability and e-transactions and
E-commerce security - that include recommendations for developing
B2B ecommerce.
academic sites
Infowar
has
a discussion forum and media service about infowar and security
concerns, albeit with little critical evaluation.
The Institute
for the Advanced Study of Information Warfare (IASIW) includes
an exhaustive online bibliography.
The
Federation of American Scientists has an excellent collection
of links on infowar, security and hacking.
US information warfare analyst Dorothy Denning's
site at Georgetown Uni has a large collection of papers and links.
The Forum on Risks to the Public in
Computers & Related Systems (RISKS),
under the auspices of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), has
a wealth of information about dangers.
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