Tuesday, 26 September 2006

Trend Micro Declares War on Botnets with InterCloud

Trend Micro Incorporated, a provider of network antivirus and content security software and services, has released the InterCloud Security Service. InterCloud Security Service is designed to meet the performance and scalability requirements of Internet Service Providers (ISPs), universities and other large network providers. The solution incorporates a Service Delivery Platform.

InterCloud Security Service specifically addresses the mounting threat posed by botnets—networks of compromised machines that can be remotely controlled by an attacker. Threats associated with botnets include click-fraud, distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS), Spam, identity theft via phishing and pharming techniques and other crimeware-related activity.

Because bots are often specifically crafted to avoid the detection of pattern matching, Trend Micro’s new service relies on patent-pending behavioral analysis technology known as Behavioural Analysis Security Engine (BASE). Trend Micro’s BASE technology analyses aggregated application and network infrastructure data, including DNS queries and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) routing tables, to detect aberrant botnet-related behaviour. As a result, Trend Micro’s InterCloud Security Service aims to identify and isolate bots in real time whereby derailing their ability to initiate attacks or spread infection.