Microsoft’s vice president of trustworthy computing, Scott Charney, has put the call out for a collective, coordinated approach to protecting the public from, among many other threats, botnets. The worldwide Internet community would do well to apply a public health approach to battling the viruses and malware endemic to the Internet, he said in a speech earlier this week at the International Security Solutions Europe Conference in Berlin. Charney’s proposal is incorporated in a new Microsoft position paper.
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Microsoft Wants to Cordon Off Botnet-Infected Computers
Posted by: Kimberly Hill October 8, 2010 10:25 AMMicrosoft’s vice president of trustworthy computing, Scott Charney, has put the call out for a collective, coordinated approach to protecting the public from, among many other threats, botnets. The worldwide Internet community would do well to apply a public health approach to battling the viruses and malware endemic to the Internet, he said in a speech earlier this week at the International Security Solutions Europe Conference in Berlin. Charney’s proposal is incorporated in a new Microsoft position paper.