Understanding Botnets

Every organisation, whatever it's size, will have users who however much you tell them not to click links in emails -- still will - or who might visit otherwise legitimate websites that are themselves infected. For this reason you need to know about Botnets.

A botnet stands for robot network , which typically consist of hundreds of thousands of home and business PCs, which unknowingly have become infected with malicious botnet software. This enables a central controller to use the computing or network capacity of those machines.
Bonet's are mostly used for financial gain.
A "bot herder" rents the capacity to attackers who aim to extort money by threatening to attack websites of organisations using the botnet capacity to carry out what's called a D-DOS attack, that stands for distributed denial of service.
Most extortion attempts are aimed at online gambling businesses, but anyone can be impacted
Botnets are also used for other purposes, most spam comes from botnets and infected pc or pc's could have a significant impact on your network.

BT has an extensive range of cloud based solutions that help deal with the problems that bot nets present.
BT's security monitoring service could help you identify when your systems are infected with botnet software. D-DOS mitigation solutions are available which detect and block D-DOS attacks from botnets. And let's not forget anti-spam solutions... helping make all our lives easier, and inboxes lighter.

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