The APWG is pleased to present the 2010 Fall General Meeting and eCrime Researchers Summit, a combined event that no eCrime or malware researcher or counter-eCrime developer or responder will want to miss. Please join us at this opportunity to bring yourself up-to-date on phishing and eCrime's evolution across the globe. Count on three full days of cutting presentations on eCrime and eCrime response, expert discussions and in-depth round-tables with updates on APWG projects in development for the counter eCrime community. As well, we will look into the future of the APWG's development and for guidance on managing it from our eclectic member base.

This eCrime Congress will include a one-day, members-only meeting on October 18 and two full days of open sessions thereafter of programming that will be open to both members and non-members. APWG will examine crimeware's evolution, behavioral vulnerabilities and human factors that contribute to eCrime's success, the roles of Registrars, Registries and DNS in managing phishing attacks, public health approaches to managing the eCrime scourge, as well as breaking news on counter-eCrime efforts and resources.

APWG Members and Non-Members Please Note: The sessions at the Fall General Meeting on October 18 are open to APWG Members Only. APWG organizers will vet all registrants that sign up for the conference. Interlopers will not be accommodated. The subsequent eCrime Researchers Summit sessions on October 19 and 20 is a public event open to all. If you haven't already, check membership rules and benefits at: http://www.apwg.org/membership.html Members at the individual level and above are eligible to attend the General Members' meetings.
  

Presentations at the opening of the program will be delivered by ecrime responders within the APWG, its Global Research Partners and law enforcement personnel who will discuss national and regional ecrime trends and individual case studies about resolving specific electronic crime cases. Presenters will come from the ranks of private industry, private security companies, public law enforcement agencies, government agencies and national Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERT). True crime stories will be balanced with instruction about the skills the responders exercise as well as the data and tools employed to resolve phishing attacks.

APWG principals, research fellows and Global Research Partners will detail survey the eCrime landscape and present proposals for organizing global responses that will harmonize efforts of eCrime respondents and organize the work of securing the global network infrastructure. Furthermore, presenters will examine the development ecrime data exchange specifications and how they can be employed to optimize counter-ecrime applications. Presentations about industrial policy will investigate industrial policies that complicate the work of exploited brand holders and responders - such as the segments of domain name system (DNS) registration process that is abused by phishers as part of their phishing campaigns.
 

Though instruction is always an APWG priority, the other defining goal is to identify common forensic needs - in terms the data, tools and communications protocols that are required to inform and facilitate time-sensitive communications between counter-ecrime stakeholders.

APWG has surveyed a lot of proposals and all have merit but required some harmonization of effort in order to make them maximally useful. APWG hopes that at the end of the program, the ensuing dialog will produce defined projects to organize data, tools and communications protocols that are required by the larger counter-ecrime community.
 

APWG is offering an opportunity to build relationships while marketing your company to a targeted audience of security, messaging and financial professionals. Sponsorships are a personal, non-intrusive way of conveying your message. Additionally, your participation can help support activities vital to the overall success of the APWG and its research partners, which ultimately contributes to the success of the entire counter-phishing stakeholders' community.

The following benefits are available to Meeting Sponsors, once your sponsorship is confirmed:

- Recognition in on-site signage displayed during the meal or break
- Distribution of one giveaway such as a literature pack or chotchkee

There are a number of meal, break and entertainment sponsorship opportunities available for APWG members who want to use this meetings as an opportunity to communicate their brand and message to members of the APWG and presenters, each either a critical decision maker or a thought leader in his or her own right.

Please contact Deputy-Secretary Foy Shiver for details via email at fshiver@antiphishing.org.