Botnet Detection Tool Designed to Help Monitor for Advanced Threats
Strengthen real-time situational awareness and advanced botnet detection capabilities
Block communication between botnets and C&C servers
Threat actors use a range of bot attack mechanisms to bypass enterprise firewall security measures. They can infect thousands of devices to turn them into a network of bots. These bots remain benign until they communicate with a C&C server. The bot army can then launch DDoS attacks, engage in cryptomining, online scalping, or other malicious behavior. Unlike traditional botnet detectors, SolarWinds® Security Event Manager (SEM) includes a correlation engine built to identify unusual patterns and behavior in network traffic to help mitigate botnet attacks and other threats.
Respond to botnet attacks proactively
SolarWinds SIEM solutions dynamically gather logs from multiple sources including IDS/IPS, firewalls, IAM solutions, servers, and endpoints, and synthesize them to improve situational awareness across a network. To block bot traffic, SEM uses community-sourced lists of known bad actors to help detect bots. You can configure automated intrusion detection responses to security events without using custom scripts. With SEM, you can also create policies and tick the checkboxes for triggering auto-alerts, blocking IPs, and shutting down accounts.
Dig deep into logs with advanced forensics
Managing and maintaining logs is crucial for demonstrating compliance, for troubleshooting real-time events, and performing post-breach investigations. With these investigations, you can identify lingering cybersecurity issues in your setup. SEM is designed to encrypt, compress, and record your logs in read-only format. To help you extract useful information from a large volume of logs, you can set filters to focus on particular accounts, IPs, timeframes, and more. A rich UI helps ensure you don’t have to resort to the console for every minor task.
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Do you find yourself asking…
Botnet attacks are some of the most common—and the most threatening—distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in modern cybersecurity. A botnet consists of a series of connected computers and devices, hijacked and controlled to carry out a cyberattack.
A botnet can be one of the most serious cybersecurity threats to your enterprise system. Once a botnet army is activated from its command and control (C&C) center, your system can become easily overwhelmed by hundreds of botnet devices, which can quickly take your applications offline.
Since botnets appear benign until they’re commanded to attack, you may be unaware they even exist. They can easily fly under the radar of even the most vigilant security methods. Although detecting botnets is difficult, it’s not impossible if you use a botnet detection tool to flag and alert unusual patterns of activity among devices in your system.
Many botnet detection strategies involve data packet analytics, which allows you to identify irregular data transmission among devices to your server. Analyzing traffic flow can also help you detect botnets. Traffic flow data doesn’t require full security credentials, and an effective botnet detection tool can easily measure traffic patterns and flow to identify unusual behavior, ideally before a malicious C&C center has the time to activate an attack.
Botnet attacks are some of the most common—and the most threatening—distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in modern cybersecurity. A botnet consists of a series of connected computers and devices, hijacked and controlled to carry out a cyberattack.
A botnet can be one of the most serious cybersecurity threats to your enterprise system. Once a botnet army is activated from its command and control (C&C) center, your system can become easily overwhelmed by hundreds of botnet devices, which can quickly take your applications offline.
Since botnets appear benign until they’re commanded to attack, you may be unaware they even exist. They can easily fly under the radar of even the most vigilant security methods. Although detecting botnets is difficult, it’s not impossible if you use a botnet detection tool to flag and alert unusual patterns of activity among devices in your system.
Many botnet detection strategies involve data packet analytics, which allows you to identify irregular data transmission among devices to your server. Analyzing traffic flow can also help you detect botnets. Traffic flow data doesn’t require full security credentials, and an effective botnet detection tool can easily measure traffic patterns and flow to identify unusual behavior, ideally before a malicious C&C center has the time to activate an attack.
Help Bolster Your Defense with Advanced Botnet Detection Tools
Security Event Manager
- Unify and extract actionable intelligence from all your logs in near real time.
- Expedite threat response against malicious IPs, accounts, applications, and more.
- Get out-of-the-box compliance reporting for HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX, ISO, and more.
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