The company versus botmaster battle continues to rage, with neither side clearly winning, says Phyllis Schneck, chairman of the InfraGard National Members Alliance, a coalition of law enforcement and technology professionals and academic researchers that was formed to fight cybercrime. “Viruses have been with us since the mid-1980s. They’re still around and creating havoc,” she says. “I don’t anticipate that botnets will go away anytime soon.”
Still, Schneck and other security experts beat the drum about what corporations can do to try to prevent, detect and derail bot attacks. Here is some of their advice: