On 25/07/2008, at 11:00 AM, Steven Heath wrote:
I am with Neil on this, what I have seen of AusCERT is it is a delayed mimic of CERT (comments welcome on if it does more etc).

It does do more.  Its member services include training and consulting, and 
it runs "beacons" monitoring botnets so that it can tell you which IP addresses
on your network are sufficiently malware-infected to annoy the rest of the 
Internet.

They're also seen by the local press and the gubbermint as the go-to guys
for security issues, which makes it a bit more likely that sensible clue will
be inserted into some of the weirder, freakier public debates that often
accompany infosec problems.

  - mark



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