A Critical Internet Safeguard Is Running Out of Time – Shadowserver might disappear

guest · Mar 16, 2020

A Critical Internet Safeguard Is Running Out of Time
Shadowserver has helped keep the internet safe for 15 years. Unless it can raise funds fast, it's going to disappear
March 16, 2020
https://www.wired.com/story/shadowserver-cisco-internet-cybersecurity/

Keeping the internet safe may sometimes feel like a game of Whac-A-Mole, reacting to attacks as they arise, then moving on to the next.
For years a small nonprofit called Shadowserver has quietly carried out a surprisingly large portion of that work. But now the organization faces permanent extinction in a matter of weeks.

For more than 15 years, Shadowserver has been funded by Cisco as an independent organization. But thanks to budget restructuring, the group now has to go out on its own. Rather than seek a new benefactor, founder Richard Perlotto says the goal is for Shadowserver to become a fully community-funded alliance that doesn't rely on any one contributor to survive.

It's hard to overstate the importance of the organization's work. Shadowserver scans more than 4 billion IP addresses—almost the entire public internet—every day and puts together activity reports based on the findings for more than 4,600 network operators, as well as the national computer security incident response teams of 107 countries.
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"If we hadn’t been there to help mitigate these losses how much larger would they have been," Shadowserver's Perlotto says. "And if we stop mitigating these losses how large will they be in the future? Because we’ve been quietly erasing a portion of the threat to the internet for 15 years and people just didn’t know about it. Someone else paid the bill."
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Shadowserver: Saving Shadowserver and Securing the Internet — Why You Should Care & How You Can Help

Minimalist · May 27, 2020

Shadowserver, an Internet Guardian, Finds a Lifeline

The internet security group Shadowserver has a vital behind-the-scenes role; it identifies online attacks and wrests control of the infrastructure behind them. In March, it learned that longtime corporate sponsor Cisco was ending its support. With just weeks to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to move its data center out of Cisco's facility—not to mention an additional $1.7 million to make it through the year—the organization was at real risk of extinction. Ten weeks later, Shadowserver has come a long way toward securing its financial future.
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https://www.wired.com/story/shadowserver-funding-trend-micro-internet-society/

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