Introducing the CSA’s Anti-Bot Working Group

Among the many exciting new working groups being established and meeting at CSA Congress, today we’d like to also introduce our Anti-Bot Working Group. Chaired by Shelbi Rombout from USBank, this group’s mission is to develop and maintain a research portfolio providing capabilities to assist the cloud provider industry in taking a lifecycle approach to botnet prevention.

Why an anti-bot group?

Botnets have long been a favored attack mechanism of malicious actors. A recent evolution in botnet innovation has been the introduction of server-based bots as an alternative to single user personal computers. The access to vastly greater upload bandwidths and higher compute performance has attracted the same adversaries who have built and operated earlier botnets.

As cloud computing is rapidly becoming the primary option for server-based computing and hosted IT infrastructure, CSA as the industry leader has an obligation to articulate solutions to prevent, respond and mitigate against botnets occurring on cloud infrastructure. The CSA Anti-Bot Working Group is the primary stakeholder for coordinating these activities.

Initial Research

As part of its charter, the group expects to publish two key pieces of research related to botnets - Fundamental Anti-Bot Practices for Cloud Providers, and an Anti-Bot Toolkit Repository for Cloud Providers.

For more information about the working group, visit: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/research/antibot