Head, Antispam Operations, Outblaze Limited
Madras Area, India
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- Consultant at International Telecommunications Union
- Director at Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA)
- Coordinator at CAUCE Asia Pacific (APCAUCE)
- Head, Antispam Operations at Outblaze Limited
- Past
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- Systems Administrator at BPL Innovision
- Associate, Security and Abuse Desk at Juno
- Education
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- Osmania University
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Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Summary
Suresh heads all anti-spam operations at Outblaze Limited, responsible for setting up and enforcing spam filtering and blocking decisions for Outblaze clients and users as well as evaluating new and existing filtering methodologies used at Outblaze.
He has extensive experience in handling e-mail abuse and postmaster work, starting with a stint at Juno.com (now United Online) and then going on to set up the anti-spam operations at BPL Innovision Limited before joining Outblaze in 2001. He is coordinator of APCAUCE (the Asia Pacific wing of the Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email), as well being the vice chair of the management committee for the APRICOT network operators conference.
He has been actively lobbying for realistic solutions at technological, legislative and policy levels to spam since 1998, and has written two papers on the spam problem, for the OECD and for APDIP/UNDP.
He has given well-received talks and keynote speeches on spam around the world at conferences organized by the OECD and ITU, as well as industry events such as MAAWG, APRICOT and InboxEvent and been widely interviewed by media such as Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, Wired, PC Magazine and Salon. An updated list of articles that quote Suresh is available at http://www.hserus.net/wiki/index.php/Media_Coverage
In recognition of his tireless work against the growing spam problem, BusinessWeek Magazine profiled him as one of 2002's top 25 e-business professionals
Suresh will, during 2008, also be engaged with the ITU on a year long field research project on Cybersecurity.
Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Specialties:
spam, acceptable use policy, filtering, deliverablity, public policy, botnets, malware, internet governance
Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Experience
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Consultant
International Telecommunications Union
(Government Agency; Telecommunications industry)
August 2007 — Present (1 year 3 months)
Consulting with the ITU on a cybersecurity related field research project till end 2008
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Director
Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA)
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
February 2006 — Present (2 years 9 months)
The Asia Pacific Internet Association (APIA), established in 1997, is a non-profit trade association whose aim is to promote the common business interests of the Internet-related service industry in the Asia Pacific region. APIA is the managing organization for APRICOT, the Asia Pacific Regional Internet Conference on Operational Technologies, the largest network operators conference in the Asia Pacific region.
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Coordinator
CAUCE Asia Pacific (APCAUCE)
(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
February 2003 — Present (5 years 9 months)
I was founder-president of, and am currently coordinator of CAUCE Asia Pacific (http://www.apcauce.org) and have been active in CAUCE since the late 1990s, when, as a student, I helped start CAUCE India. CAUCE - the Coalition against Unsolicited Commercial Email - is the largest volunteer antispam organization in the world, with a presence in the USA, Canada, Europe and the asiapac region.
APCAUCE is an informal grouping of CAUCE organizations from different economies around the asiapac region. Its activities (and mine) include organizing regular technical and public policy conferences around the asiapac region, as well as contributing responses to commens solicited from different governments in the region on current or proposed antispam legislation.
Oh behalf of APCAUCE, I also participate in antispam activities organized by groups in industry (such as MAAWG), as well as inter-governmental organizations such as ITU, APECTEL and OECD. -
Head, Antispam Operations
Outblaze Limited
(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer & Network Security industry)
August 2001 — Present (7 years 3 months)
Heads all anti-spam operations at Outblaze Limited, directs the Postmaster and Abuse desks and is responsible for setting and enforcing Outblaze’s Acceptable Use Policy across the almost 40 million active email accounts operated by Outblaze He is responsible for setting up and enforcing spam filtering and blocking decisions for Outblaze clients and users and his team serves as the single point of contact to discuss blocking and filtering issues.
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Systems Administrator
BPL Innovision
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Internet industry)
2000 — 2001 (1 year)
Managed spam filtering for various divisions of the BPL Innovision Group, such a small free webmail service oyeindia.com, as well as on the SMS to email gateways for BPL Mobile, a cellular carrier with a presence in 4 indian states. Assisted administrators of BPLNet - an ISP.
Left within a year after the BPL Innovision group did a fairly spectacular crash and burn - all those three entities above are defunct now, and BPL Mobile's cellular service license was taken over by Hutchison. -
Associate, Security and Abuse Desk
Juno
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; UNTD; Internet industry)
January 2000 — August 2000 (8 months)
Part of a team enforcing the acceptable use policy on Juno, Netzero, Bluelight and other email / internet providers that were part of United Online
Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Education
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Osmania University
MBA, Human Resources Management, 1998 — 2000
Additional Information
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Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Interests:
antispam, security, internet governance, cybersecurity, wsis, public policy, quizzing, reading, movies, music
Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Groups:
APIA (http://www.apia.org), London Action Plan (http://www.londonactionplan.net), KCircle (http://www.kcircle.com), Quiz Foundation of India, Chennai, Linux India, MAAWG, CAUCE, Silk List, Quiznet, flyertalk.com, IGF
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CAUCE - North American Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email -
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kcircle
Suresh Ramasubramanian’s Honors:
Businessweek top 25 eBusiness Professionals of 2002
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