Dear All,

As part of its continuing commitment to transparency and accountability, ICANN's Identifier Systems Security, Stability and Resiliency (OCTO SSR) department published its activities report for calendar year 2016. You can find the 2016 report here[icann.org][PDF, 261 KB].

This reports describe the activities that are performed to maintain the security, stability, and resiliency of the Internet's global identifier systems. These activities include collaboration with, global security and operations groups and public safety communities where ICANN staff serves in several roles.

Depending on the engagement or request, OCTO SSR staff:

• offers security or DNS subject matter expertise; 
• facilitates cooperative action among ICANN and other communities to maintain Identifier System Security, Stability, and Resiliency;
• conducts research; 
• engages with public and private sector actors in capability building related to Identifier Systems SSR;
• supports the daily efforts of security or operations communities to mitigate the misuse or harmful use of the Identifier Systems (in particular, DNS or domain name registration services).

The 2016 activities reports highlights collaboration and stakeholder activities from July 1 through December 31, 2016. The report summarizes activities performed as part of the identifier system SSR threat awareness and preparedness remit and provide progress reports on analytics or productivity improvement projects as well. A complementary report is published as well, OCTO SSR Training Metrics: Investigating Identifier Systems Abuse or Misuse. You can find this report here[icann.org] [PDF, 545 KB].

For more information about IS-SSR click https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/is-ssr-2014-11-24-en[icann.org].

Best regards.

Joke Braeken

ccNSO Policy Advisor 

joke.braeken@icann.org

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