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21 newsletter and fact sheets. 4 AusCERT published 62 alerts and 27 advisories during 2009.

2.5. AusCERT Certificate Services AusCERT-CS

The AusCERT Certificate Service, which utilises Comodo certificate services, provides Australia’s education and research community with SSL server certificates that are widely recognised by popular web browsers, mobile devices and other user applications. Client certificates will be provided that can be used, among other things, to secure email communication and for TLS Transport Layer Security client authentication to identify persons accessing web sites. Code signing certificates will also be available. These are used to authenticate and sign software code for distribution over the Internet. More information about the AusCERT Certificate Services is available from: http:cs.auscert.org.au

3. EVENTS ORGANISED CO-ORGANISED

3.1 Training AusCERT continues to provide CSIRT training upon request, including providing Training of Network Security Incident Teams Staff TRANSIT training in South Korea and FIRST TC training in Malaysia. 3.2 Conferences AusCERT held its annual Asia-Pacific Information Security Conference at the Gold Coast Australia in May 2009 with over 1,000 delegates. 5 Coinciding with the annual AusCERT conference, AusCERT also hosts other networking and information sharing events. For example, AusCERT hosts an invitation only online crime symposium for key stakeholders and organisations that are most likely to be affected by this crime or are in a position to assist deal with the crimes. 4 www.ssoalertservice.net.au 5 conference.auscert.org.auconf2009 22 During 2009, AusCERT participated in a number of international conferences and events, including: • APCERT2009, Chinese Taipei • FIRST conference and technical colloquium • ITU Cybersecurity Forum for Asia Pacific

4. ACHIEVEMENTS

4.1 Presentations and awareness raising AusCERT has given presentations at several conferences throughout 2009. These include presentations at ITU Cybersecurity Forum in Hyderabad India, APEC-Tel, and the Underground Economy conference in France. In Australia, AusCERT briefed the Australian House of Representative’s cybercrime enquiry and engaged with local industry groups in Australia including the Australian Computer Society and Australian secondary schools. For the most part, these presentations have sought to give various communities knowledge of the cyber threat environment and allow them to consider whether their own preparations or strategic plans – be they at organisational, national or at international level are adequate to meet the needs of the current threat environment and future anticipated threats. 4.2 Publications During 2009, AusCERT made a number of submissions to the Australian government, including into the area of cybercrime. 6 During 2009, AusCERT prepared a scoping study to consider the feasibility of developing a regional CERT capability for the Pacific Island Nations, commissioned by the ITU. Details of this report are available on the ITU web site. 7 AusCERT continues to work with the ITU and stakeholders in the Pacific Island nations to progress this further. 6 http:www.auscert.org.aurender.html?it=12024 7 http:www.itu.intITU-DaspCMSDocsInterrim_PacificCERT_Report.pdf 23

5. INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION