In a world where most of the internet traffic is produced by bots, who will defend the innocent from the relentless onslaught of malicious botnet activity?

Everyday, countless incidents of botnet activity occur all around the web; wreaking havoc in the form of mass security breaches, data scraping, fraudulent activity and DDoS attacks. The first step in the defense against botnets is to know when suspicious activity is taking place.

This talk covers: what a botnet is, how they work, and walks through a technique we are developing at Distil Networks to identify the presence of a botnet and a list of responsible participants. The botnet identification method described utilizes a correlation in traffic on a customer’s site, along with user fingerprinting, to first alert when a botnet is present and then identify key players.