February 15, 2008 2:29 PM PST
Security Bites Podcast: What IT can learn from botnets
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Robert Vamosi talks with Internet Security Systems' Josh Corman about how IT should adapt and evolve to handle new attacks.
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This week, CNET's Robert Vamosi talks with Josh Corman, host protection architect for Internet Security Systems (ISS).
With more than eight years of experience in security and networking software, Corman is contributing some of the best out-of-the-box thinking on the distributed networks currently being used by online criminals.
But Corman's most incisive comments are reserved for the security community itself. We know that botnets as a platform for launching attacks are here to stay. Where they go next--say toward launching a "digital Pearl Harbor"--remains debatable and, after talking with Corman, one might see how that discussion perhaps misses the point.
Storm and other botnets have shown themselves to be agile and adaptable; so too must the security community become agile and adaptable, says Corman. "It's our turn to evolve."
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