[council] Cybersecurity Awareness Messaging - Session Invitation (ICANN 51)

[Glen de Saint Géry <Glen@xxxxxxxxx>]

The Anti-Phishing Working Group will hold a session during ICANN 51 in Los 
Angeles regarding the STOP. THINK. CONNECT. cybersecurity awareness campaign. 
The SSR Team would like to invite all members of the community, including gTLD 
and ccTLD registries, registrars, the private sector, government 
representatives, academic researchers, NGOs and all others to attend and 
consider joining the initiative as well.

Session title: (APWG) Hemispheric Unification of Cyber Security Awareness 
Messaging
http://la51.icann.org/en/schedule/wed-apwg-cyber-security
Date: Wed, 15 October 2014 - 16:30 to 17:45 PDT
Room: Pacific Palisades

"The STOP. THINK. CONNECT. Messaging Convention has embarked upon a campaign to 
establish the STOP. THINK. CONNECT. cybersecurity awareness messaging suite as 
a hemisphere-wide campaign, leveraging initial adoption by nation-states in 
North America, Central America and South America.

"The Messaging Convention was established in 2010 to unify online safety 
awareness with a common slogan - STOP.THINK.CONNECT. - and a universally 
recognized logo. The campaign has been adopted by national government agencies 
and group in the USA, Canada, Malaysia, Japan, Uruguay, Panama and Paraguay and 
the Convention joined with the Organization of American States in 2012 to 
promote the campaign among its member states, of which there are 35 independent 
nations.

Working from these early adoptions in the Western Hemisphere and the membership 
networks of the APWG and co-founder, NCSA, the Convention proposes the 
consolidation of national cybersecurity awareness messaging campaigns into a 
hemispheric effort that would provide transborder resonance and unparalleled 
efficiency in delivering the campaign's essential messages."

Carlos Alvarez
Sr. Manager, SSR Technical Engagement
Security Stability Resiliency Team
ICANN