The ISOI meetings ended on Tuesday with some more interesting presentations. Attendees were exhorted to talk about what they could do tomorrow to solve the problems. The truth is that none of us can solve the problems tomorrow. There were several suggestions for how we can start working on solutions. There is no silver bullet, and if there was it would only be useful against werewolves anyway.

A straw poll revealed that several people received information that they would put to use immediately. Today a message came into the group that detailed how a meeting between a researcher and a law enforcement expert resulted in a new technique that has already helped prevent a type of internet fraud. The results are estimated to prevent several hundred thousands of dollars of losses.

One of the key items of discussion was the need to get information out to the general public. Many of the topics are fairly well covered on security sites, but that only reaches a small percentage of the people who need to know what is going on. I’ll try to do my part here to share information that is relevant to you in a non-techy and useful manner.

Randy Abrams is the Director of Technical Education for ESET LLC