From: The National Law Review
Laura H. Phillips | Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
The U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Homeland Security, through the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), has released the final report on enhancing the resilience of the Internet and communications ecosystem against botnets and automated distributed threats.
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The “Enhancing the Resilience of the Internet and Communications Ecosystem Against Botnets and other Automated, Distributed Threats” final report aims to build upon consensus on various governmental and private initiatives and new approaches for the government either to adopt or to encourage the development of a more resilient ecosystem that can more effectively defend against threats and attacks by botnets. These attacks are expected to gain in both scale and complexity over time as vectors for attack (both end user devices and Internet of Things endpoints) proliferate. The final report does not differentiate between threats from nation states, cybercriminals or other actors; it observes that developing better cooperation and countermeasures within the ecosystem will generally be effective against all threats regardless of the threat origin.
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