Understanding the Dark Side of Network Bots
To protect your small or midsize company’s network against bots, you’ve first got to understand what bots do and how they do it. Cisco’s Jimmy Ray Purser unveils the dark side of network bots. Looking back at how good things can be turned into bad things is the true study of network security. There never really was an “In-law” protocol or design that was intended to be for negative use right out of the gate. All of the “bad stuff” is simply “good stuff” modified to serve the dark side of the force. For example, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is great for managing our devices. On the dark side, it is great for getting tons of information about a device so I can hack it later on. A multitude of such examples exist.