While the joint efforts of security and IT operations ultimately determine an enterprise's security strength, the individual goals of these two groups are often misaligned, thanks to conflicting responsibilities and different metrics for evaluating and rewarding successful performance. The result is what industry analysts are calling a "SecOps gap," where poor collaboration between these two groups results in unnecessary security vulnerabilities, business-system downtime, excessive labor costs, and challenges …

None of us are immune to the impact of botnets on Internet-connected organizations. Taking a proactive approach to tracking botnet behavior can yield threat intelligence that is truly actionable. This report examines the potential causes for the increase in these attack types, the profile of the victims by industry and geography, commonly-targeted ports and protocols, and several other botnet characteristics. Read this report for a closer look at botnets that are used specifically to deploy malware to gain …