Proactive Anti-Botnet Technology Stops Malicious Threats at the Protocol Level
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published Monday 30th 2008
Grey McKenzie
National Cyber Security Founder
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Botnets are one of the most dangerous online
security threats today where it is estimated that 40% of the 800
million computers on the Internet unsuspectingly distribute spam, steal
private data, launch crippling denial-of-service attacks, and spread
new infections.
Botnets are difficult to detect and even more challenging to stop as their dynamic and adaptive capabilities empower them to self-propagate through their own established peer-to-peer networks and evade conventional detection techniques by covertly relocating the command server and spam load to another, as-yet-undiscovered, bot.
Conventional Security Approaches are Obsolete
By design, botnets are very effective in defeating conventional anti-spam technologies because the emails are covertly sent from trusted sources, rendering today’s anti-spam technologies such as reputation systems and blacklists obsolete.
Likewise, traditional content filtering solutions are failing as botnets continue to use innovative forms of image spam, pdf spam and audio files, etc. to bypass filters.
As these innovative forms of spam are typically five to ten times larger than a text-based message, the problem intensifies as email servers and network bandwidth becomes overloaded with the growing size and volume of spam, disrupting the efficient
delivery of
legitimate email.
Network Profiling Technology Eliminates Botnet Threats at the Connection Level
Utilizing global network intelligence, Engate’s advanced network profiling technology delivers unprecedented real-time visibility into malicious sources from around the world. Engate’s anti-botnet solution employs patented network profiling, source verification, and anti-forgery techniques to identify and block email-borne botnet attacks in real-time and at the protocol layer, while allowing legitimate email to pass to the recipient.
Engate uniquely profiles every IP address within the network, segregates legitimate mail servers from all other network hosts, and establishes proprietary ’smart rules‘ that have the unique ability to immediately identify compromised computers, detect protocol fraud, and intelligently reject illicit connections at the network level.
Engate’s global intelligence is instantly aware of new computers that become members of botnets and stops the distribution of email-borne threats at the protocol level, before it reaches the enterprise gateway and has a chance to compromise IT resources, slow down network performance, crash servers and invade privacy.
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Botnets are difficult to detect and even more challenging to stop as their dynamic and adaptive capabilities empower them to self-propagate through their own established peer-to-peer networks and evade conventional detection techniques by covertly relocating the command server and spam load to another, as-yet-undiscovered, bot.
Conventional Security Approaches are Obsolete
By design, botnets are very effective in defeating conventional anti-spam technologies because the emails are covertly sent from trusted sources, rendering today’s anti-spam technologies such as reputation systems and blacklists obsolete.
Likewise, traditional content filtering solutions are failing as botnets continue to use innovative forms of image spam, pdf spam and audio files, etc. to bypass filters.
As these innovative forms of spam are typically five to ten times larger than a text-based message, the problem intensifies as email servers and network bandwidth becomes overloaded with the growing size and volume of spam, disrupting the efficient
Network Profiling Technology Eliminates Botnet Threats at the Connection Level
Utilizing global network intelligence, Engate’s advanced network profiling technology delivers unprecedented real-time visibility into malicious sources from around the world. Engate’s anti-botnet solution employs patented network profiling, source verification, and anti-forgery techniques to identify and block email-borne botnet attacks in real-time and at the protocol layer, while allowing legitimate email to pass to the recipient.
Engate uniquely profiles every IP address within the network, segregates legitimate mail servers from all other network hosts, and establishes proprietary ’smart rules‘ that have the unique ability to immediately identify compromised computers, detect protocol fraud, and intelligently reject illicit connections at the network level.
Engate’s global intelligence is instantly aware of new computers that become members of botnets and stops the distribution of email-borne threats at the protocol level, before it reaches the enterprise gateway and has a chance to compromise IT resources, slow down network performance, crash servers and invade privacy.
Full Story
