Second day of ENOG 4 started with Business and Technologies section, where the attendees continued topical discussions on traffic exchange and IPv6 support. Vasily Dolmatov (Hosting Community) briefed the public on OpenFlow and its effect on how the Internet expands. As Dolmatov says, this most prospective technology is supported by many hardware vendors and might replace BGP in the future.
Panel session on cooperation in tackling malicious content was led by Andrei Kolesnikov, the Coordination Center director. The Coordination Center takes an active part in neutralizing malicious content sources and partners with many industry-leading companies to ensure safe browsing in .RU and .РФ.
Pavel Khramtsov (Technical Center of Internet) briefed the public on the survey that the Technical Center of Internet is conducting together with Kaspersky Lab and Yandex. To understand the extent of Russian domains used for criminal purposes, TCI and its partners exchange data on malicious content sources. Sergey Golovanov, Kaspersky Lab, told more about website databases for malicious content, saying that Kaspersky Lab is ready to share the information on criminal websites with anyone who is ready to tackle illegal global network resources.
Mikhail Meschansky (Mail.Ru) elaborated on current spam situation in the Russian segment of the Internet. According to Meschansky, the amount of spam grows at a costly price for mail services as the latter have to prevent spam attacks. Meschansky thinks that one needs to fight spam at a government level, changing the legal regulations accordingly. Sergey Pevtsov, Yandex, noted that these measures – even criminal liability – would prove effective. As of today, about 3,000 to 3,500 websites are infected daily, bringing damage to thousands of users.
Andrey Bondarenko (HighLoad Lab) told the audience about this year's DDoS attacks, stressing that there are more attacks of this type now, though they're less potent and not as long as before. Bondarenko thinks that more strict legal liability here could trigger adverse effects as the criminals will have an additional weapon to fight off unwanted competition. "80 to 90 percent of RU-CERT requests are related to phishing, and this number grows year over year", says Sergey Bunyakov, adding that very few users pay attention to security and take necessary security measures, which results in more users affected by criminal activities in the Internet.
Anatoly Zemtsov spoke on tackling malicious websites as well as on the partner activities with the Coordination Center, including new joint initiative by Group-IB and the CC, Antiphishing.ru.
In the Governance & Regulation session moderated by Mikhail Yakushev, a member of the Coordination Center Council, Irina Levova (RAEC) and Dmitry Burkov (FAITID) elaborated on content filtering in Russia and worldwide. The session attendees discussed the most comprehensive methods to control the Internet traffic as well as control criteria and legal aspects of content filtering. Yakushev stresses that content filtering should be taken seriously by the entire Internet community to solve problems related to unbalanced filtering.
