SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft’s chief information security executive today offered insight into how the company plans to thwart botnets, secure enterprise cloud computing and help individuals better manage their online identities.
In his keynote address at the 2010 RSA Conference, Scott Charney, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Trustworthy Computing Group, signaled Microsoft’s intent to wage a battle against botnet operators on multiple fronts — socially and politically by helping companies and individuals understand the botnet problem, and legally through the courts.
Charney referenced Operation b49, a Microsoft-led initiative to neutralize the well-known Waledac botnet. On Feb. 22, a federal judge in Virginia issued an order at Microsoft’s request to disable nearly 300 domains allegedly involved in coordinating Waledac, at the time among the world’s top 10 most disruptive botnets.
“People have really struggled to understand the threat” posed by botnets and other types of attacks, Charney said. “Some people diminish the threat; some exaggerate the threat; everyone is struggling to get their arms around the threat.”
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