First Firewalls, Now Botwalls, What Will They Think of Next?

People are using computers and networks more and more to power up their business, the web is changing, so is the threat landscape, hackers are getting smarter and smarter, but security experts are not slacking either! One of the newest things one IT manager can add to his company's security modules is the botwall, and as its name says it, it walls off bots.

This is one great utility, since botnets with their DDoS attacks have really become a threat. They say this is the year of the bot or of the botnet, so security experts have stepped up to the challenge, creating something to battle the top threat!

The botwall is going to use appliances from (inside) the data center and work with systems deployed at Internet service providers (ISP) ant third party technology partners, to form a "botwall network" that will fight off any bot.

Using a technique similar to that of a honey pot, a botwall will easily identify any "bad" traffic, and while cooperating with off-network botwalls, it can block any traffic that it considers to be malevolent.

The only company that offers anti-botnet protection via these botwalls is FireEye, Inc. and here is a link to see more on their product, right on their official page.

"The FireEye Botwall system redefines coordinated network security going beyond traditional security mechanisms, such as blocking at the perimeter or inspecting traffic on the internal LAN, to accurately and continuously analyze the network for both bots and botnet activities," said Ashar Aziz, CEO of FireEye. "We've created a solution geared to stop the threat of botnet infiltrations in a coordinated and easy-to-deploy system for our customers."

To be honest, every week we get news of some security product improving cyber-defense and how security is getting better, but also each week, there is more news about how things are going bad in security and how high-profile targets get hacked. I really hope that the botwall will make a difference, since it is supposed to address one of the worst threats we're facing right now.