Because Effective Anti-Abuse Collaboration Requires a Trusted Global Forum
Download the M3AAWG Priorities and Focus Areas
The Messaging, Malware, and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group provides a collaborative global trusted forum that brings industry together to help fight and prevent online abuse. Working with members, industry groups and global partners, M3AAWG will continue its efforts to help prevent online
abuse, focusing on Communications & Content (Securing the Conversation), Platform & Infrastructure (Hardening the Stack), User & Endpoint (Protecting the Edge), and Policy & Regulations (Applying the Expertise)..
PRIORITIES AND FOCUS AREAS
As online abuse threats grow more advanced, WAAWG is proactively evolving and adapting its work to meet emerging challenges, strengthening its organizational capabilities, expanding partnerships, and continuing to foster a diverse and inclusive culture.
Communications & Content
Securing the Conversation: Preventing, detecting, filtering, and stopping abuse in the content stream.
Detecting and blocking spoofed messages, lookalike domains, and impersonstion attacks.
Preventing ransomware and malicious payload delivery via phishing OR codes, and embedded links.
Mitigating abuse of trust and reputation through deceptive sender tactics.
Addressing Al-generated spam, phishing, and other content manipulation tactics.
Defending against evasion techniques designed to bypass filters and classifiers.
PRIORITIES AND FOCUS AREAS
We Value CLARITY
These are the cote beliefs and guiding principles that shape how M3WAAWG operates. It is our culture and internal compass for how we collaborate, interact with stakeholders, and direct our efforts.
Callaboration
We are in this together as a working group, driving real results through shared contributions and effort.
M3AAWG Mission and Vision Statements (Multiple Languages)
Vision Statement: A world free of online abuse.
Mission Statement: To be the leading global trusted forum bringing industry together to innovate, collaborate, and maximize our impact in prevention of online abuse, through our targeted priorities, focus areas, and world-class best practices.
Who We Are
Founded in 2004, the Messaging Malware and Mobile Anti-Abuse Working Group (M3AAWG) is a technology-neutral global industry association. As a working group, we develop cooperative approaches for fighting online abuse. Our more than 200
members worldwide include Internet service providers (ISPs), communications service providers, social networking companies, hosting and cloud services providers, major antivirus vendors and security vendors, email service providers, leading
hardware and software vendors and major brands, as well as invited experts, government agencies and related industry groups and industry partners.
What We Do
In addition to ongoing assessment and discussion of relevant topics via our committees and special interest groups, we develop and publish best practices papers (translated when available), position statements, training and educational
videos, and other materials to help the online community fight abuse with a focus on operational practices.
Our public policy advocacy (which is not lobbying) provides technical and operational guidance to governments and Internet and public policy agencies developing new Internet policies, standards, and legislation.
How We Work
M3AAWG maintains a diverse and inclusive culture while providing its members a trusted forum and a framework for open discussion and collaboration on online abuse issues in an atmosphere of confidentiality and cooperation.
Our work is driven by members who contribute ideas and content for best practices and other initiatives with input from a diverse community across industries, government, academia and civil society groups, as well as industry partners.
Information and best practices are shared with the broader online abuse community as appropriate.
Members participate in M3AAWG through relevant committees or special interest groups (SIG) in support of organizational priorities, focus areas and initiatives.
Through global partners (https://www.m3aawg.org/our-partners), we collaborate to combine expertise and best practices across a number of complementary groups to fight online abuse.
In addition to regular committee, SIG, and board meetings, we gather three times a year in North America and Europe for working sessions, roundtables and keynotes. These multi-track meetings held over four days feature presentations by academic
researchers, public policy advisors, government representatives, industry experts, and innovative technology leaders with open discussion among industry peers.
Benefits and Value for Our Members
- Diverse and inclusive culture
- Confidential and collaborative forums, including access to members only content
- Global perspective
- Breadth and depth of expertise and knowledge
- Best practices
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Content, and industry communications including News, our blog, videos and social media links provide
frequent updates.
Questions? Please contact Amy Cadagin, M3AAWG Executive Director, at https://www.m3aawg.org/contact-us
