The Symantec Corporation is famous for the Norton Utilities and mostly for the Norton AntiVirus, but their security solutions are not limited to that. In any case, they have announced that their Managed Security Service customers are protected against bots too. By means of bots or drones (an infection on your computer), an unauthorized user could remotely take control of it. With the integration of bot intelligence into its MSS technology, Symantec delivers additional insight into security threats, including (but not limited to) botnets.

"Symantec views bots as the most severe online security threat to both enterprises and consumers," said Grant Geyer, vice president, Symantec Managed Security Services. "Symantec is the only company providing an additional layer of bot protection for our enterprise customers through the integration of new bot intelligence into our Managed Security Service technology." Now this is how they've earned their name as one of the leaders on the security market!

And let me tell you how their system actually works - it's easy to understand. Symantec has a Global Intelligence Network that has the capability of identifying botnet activity and malware. With these resources at hand, all that needs to be done afterwards is correlate blacklists with what would otherwise seem to be benign activity. And they (Symantec) claim more than half of the 2,000 bot-related incidents identified in September were solely based on the new bot intelligence capabilities. These facts just come to prove that the system is quite efficient.

The first article I wrote today tackled the fact that BT is fighting against distributed denial of service attacks. Now, we find out that Symantec is fighting bots. So, these two security firms are tackling the worst security problems out there - it seems to me that some of our (greatest) problems might be on the way to getting solved.