WHOIS in peril?

Neil Schwartzman

Neil Schwartzman is a management consultant working with such clients as Apple Inc. and Mailchimp Inc. and has been involved in cybersecurity since 1994, when he wrote the world's first distributed spam filtering software.

Mr Schwartzman is the Executive Director of the Internet's oldest end-use advocacy group, the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUCE.org). In this capacity, he has been the Co-chair of the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group's (M3AAWG.org) Awards, Hosting, and Public Policy Committees, a founding member of the UCENet (a.k.a. The London Action Plan), a representative to the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the Stop Spam Alliance and the Anti-Spyware Coalition, and an appointed member of Canada's Federal Ministerial Task Force on Spam.

In 2012, he helped spearhead a yearlong external review and augmentation of cybersecurity and messaging anti-abuse best practices of the Organization of Economic Co-operation and Development's Anti-spam Toolkit undertaken by the London Action Plan, Industry Canada, MAAWG and CAUCE and presented these findings to the OECD, in Paris, France. He has participated in working groups of the U.S. Federal Communications Committee's 'Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council' II and III specifically focused on the impact of malware and botnets.

Schwartzman won the first annual M3AAWG.org Mary Litynski Award for lifetime achievement in his work in anti-abuse.

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