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Resources to Improve Your Operations and Collaborate on Security

We invite you to join us in contributing to the security of the global online community while improving the effectiveness of your own operations. Founded in 2004, M³AAWG is a trusted, collaborative forum where members from around the world share information on the latest technologies and operational-level initiatives to stop abuse. Expanding our reach, many industry associations such as ICANN, ISOC, and APWG are M³AAWG members and work within our community or present at our meetings. This sharing of the best approaches to fight online threats within a broad global community and access to industry experts has proven extremely valuable to our members and is not available in any other forum.

We also have published more than 40 best practices and other resources to provide the industry with recommendations and background information to improve messaging security and protect users:

• All M³AAWG best practices: https://www.m3aawg.org/published-documents
• All M³AAWG best practices and documents by general focus:  Messaging  –  Malware  – Mobile

A few current topics of interest:

Communications Security

• M³AAWG Email Authentication Recommended Best Practices
• M³AAWG Best Practices for Managing SPF Records
• M³AAWG Sending Domains Best Common Practices

Hosting/Cloud Service Providers:

• M³AAWG Anti-Abuse Best Common Practices for Hosting and Cloud Service Providers – https://www.m3aawg.org/Hosting-BP

To understand, prevent and mitigate DDoS Attacks:

• M³AAWG Introduction to Reflective DDoS Attacks - www.m3aawg.org/Reflective-DDoS-Introduction
• M³AAWG Initial Recommendations: Arming Businesses Against DDoS Attacks - https://www.m3aawg.org/DDoS-Recommendations-Business

To protect against pervasive monitoring:

• M³AAWG Initial Recommendations for Addressing a Potential Man-in-the-Middle Threat – https://www.m3aawg.org/MITM-Recommendations
• M³AAWG Password Recommendations for Account Providers - www.m3aawg.org/password-recommendations-providers
• M³AAWG Multi-factor Authentication Recommendations - https://www.m3aawg.org/multifactor-authentication-bp

Mobile Messaging:

• M³AAWG Mobile Messaging Best Practices for Service Providers-August 2015 ­– www.m3aawg.org/mobilemessagingbp.pdf

M³AAWG Email and Bot Reports:

• https://www.m3aawg.org/m3aawg-reports

M³AAWG Industry Outreach LACNIC Anti-Abuse Partnership:

• M³AAWG LACNIC Partnership
• JP-AAWG Japanese Anti-Abuse Partnership: https://www.m3aawg.org/Japan
• Collaboration with other industry associations: https://www.m3aawg.org/our-partners

Public Policy Comments:
https://www.m3aawg.org/for-the-industry/published-comments

M³AAWG Meetings: https://www.m3aawg.org/upcoming-meetings
Members-only, multiple-track events held three times a year are generally attended by more than 300 participants with leading industry experts, researchers and public policy officials addressing such diverse topics as bot mitigation practices, social networking abuse, mobile abuse and pending legislation.

Training and Industry-Relevant Videos: https://www.youtube.com/maawg
More than 70 videos in playlists organized around training, public policy, anti-abuse research, expert commentary from keynotes and other topics

The ongoing dialogue among M³AAWG members is an exceptional resource to keep you current on the latest trends and threats.  We look forward to your participation.

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