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ISPs Try on Anti-Botnet Services Model?

Kelly Jackson Higgins writes on Dark Reading:

ISPs, under siege from increasingly more powerful and sophisticated botnet-based attacks, are fighting back -- with an anti-botnet business model.

Some service providers are looking at ways to productize their botnet research and investigations into anti-botnet managed security services -- a strategy designed to help them fund the buildout of more secure infrastructures that can better mitigate the attacks.

So far, anti-botnet services have mainly centered around distributed denial of service (DDOS) managed services that filter out and "scrub" traffic, such as AT&T's Internet Protect and Verizon Business's DoS Defense Mitigation. According to Arbor Networks's recent survey of ISPs, the number of service providers who offer managed security services jumped from six to 40 during the period of July 2006 through June of this year. And most were DDOS services, according to Arbor.

More here.

Note: Well, I say "Show Me".

Our statistics, above, show that ISPs have a loooong way to go. - ferg

posted by Fergie @ 9/19/2007 05:34:00 PM