South Africa Institutes Australian iCode.

• Position: CYBERSECURITY - Brief article

South Africa recently became the second country to implement network-level protection for end users. The Internet Service Providers' Association (ISPA), South Africa's Internet industry body, developed the voluntary code of practice, iCode, in conjunction with Australia's Internet industry, which pioneered the approach in 2010.

According to ISPA, the code was designed primarily to protect the privacy of end users, not violate it. "The network-level scanning that allows ISPs to detect signs of infected machines does not in any way involve looking at what users are doing online."

The code consists of four main elements: a notification/management system; a standardized information resource; a comprehensive resource for...