<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">Hi,<br><br>I was security team lead for a South African ISP for the last nine years and am pretty new to the Aus environment. On the subscriber side, is it fair to say that aussie isps are connectivity focused and lack on adding customer services and security? I spent a lot of time ensuring our customers were protected, we allowed customers to control their nas port acls and we went as far to scan subscribers twice a day to ensure that their default vendor router passwords were changed and used BI tools to identify account anomalies. Its quite odd to find that AU ISPs do not bother to SMS or email
customers when approaching their bandwidth cap but rather let
them consume what they want and charge high rates. For us it was all the small services that made the difference, for example we used to update
bandwith accounting every hour and include usage breakdowns.<br><br>
How many WiMax pilots are on, its strange to see the ISPs holding back investments on closing the last mile. <br>
<br>I am part of the Microsoft security response alliance which is a group of security contacts from major ISPs around the globe who are able to respond to global events and notice that we have no aussie members. If you are a interested and carry decent number of subscribers it would be great to get some ISPs on board.<br>
<br>Do any of the ISP's have their own security teams, I suspect that most
ISPs outsource or subcontract work rather than managing security operations, metrics and
risk themselves?<br><br>Hope to network a bit..<br>Cheers<br>Eric<br><br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/eappelboom" target="_blank">http://www.linkedin.com/in/eappelboom</a><br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>E.W.J Appelboom<br>CISM CCSA CCSE MCSE MCP CISSP CEH A+ CCNA SEC+ CISA MCSA(SECURITY) CGEIT BCCPSE<br>cell: +61414210821<br><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/eappelboom">http://www.linkedin.com/in/eappelboom</a><br>
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