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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (302746)	1/8/2011 1:24:47 PM
From: Giordano Bruno	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

It looks like an idea whose time has come but I'd think a McAfee type could handle it without government involvement. McAfee CEO Dave DeWalt said an effective partnership between industry and the government to tackle Internet security issues can't some soon enough. A security pandemic "I'm a huge fan and applaud what NSTIC doing and it's a bit of 'it's about time'," he said during a panel discussion. "I've been CEO of McAfee for four years and watched an exponential increase in crime and malware we get; it's a major pandemic …. Not only is the volume of malware and attacks on identity theft on the rise, but the complexity has too. We need government step up. He later added that the private sector also has to "step up" to help meet the growing security threats. DeWalt said McAfee alone sees 55,000 new pieces of malware every day. "About 90 percent of those are designed to do one thing, steal identity or money from consumers," he said. He also said about half the users on the Internet don't have any real security protection enabled at all making the Web "a low risk, high return" venture for the bad guys. One practical suggestion DeWalt made was that more can be done at the domain registration level. "It's pretty easy to register a domain and at McAfee we see about two million bad websites every month," he said. Without getting into specifics, he suggested the government might be well served to require that anyone starting a new website provide some kind of basic level of identity proving they are "good people" during the initial registration process. While security companies try and be proactive and respond to security threats, DeWalt said it would helpful to get an earlier start. "You've go to hit them at both ends," he said. David Needle is the West Coast bureau chief at InternetNews.com, the news service of Internet.com, the network for technology professionals. esecurityplanet.com