Lawrence Baldwin is an independent Network Performance Consultant and author with over 15 years experience in deep protocol analysis and troubleshooting mission-critical networks and applications for Fortune 500 companies. In 2000, Baldwin developed and deployed one of the first Internet "neighborhood watch" systems known as myNetWatchman (mNW). mNW is a distributed IDS (dIDS) that uses the collective awareness of thousands of cooperating participants to identify compromised hosts and notify compromised machine owners. In an average day, mNW processes more than 1,000,000 events from a global sensor network of more than 1,300 firewall and IDS systems in 40 countries. mNW analyzes and back traces event activity from 50,000 unique hosts per day, identifying compromised hosts and sending e-mail notifications at a rate of approximately one per minute. The data collected by mNW enables analysis of global attack trends, identification of DDoS bot assimilation activities, and signature-independent detection of new worm activity.