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Industry group rallies to fight bots, protect the cloud |
December 09, 2013
Distributed denial-of-service attacks against financial firms and other industries have been mounting, so last week the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) announced it is establishing the Anti-Bot Working Group to help fight this threat.
The CSA, the organization formed to set standards for best practices and security in cloud-based services, has set up the Anti-Bot Working Group because crippling DDoS attacks launched against business websites and networks often originate within hosting facilities that have been compromised. It happens when attackers remotely take over the hosting provider’s servers in order to direct streams of destructive traffic at a target.
Shelbi Rombout
Shelbi Rombout, senior vice president and partnership executive for cybersecurity at US Bank, is chairing the CSA’s Anti-Bot Working Group, and she describes it as an effort to raise awareness about the problem and push for ways to prevent attacks from occurring through cloud-based facilities.
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