There's some good news these days on the IT security front: Cybercriminals don't want to knock your network offline. The bad news? They want to use it for launching attacks that are more distributed, more profitable, and potentially more damaging to your business than ever before.

Cybercriminals need enterprise systems to maximize the effectiveness of bots—the rogue, hard-to-detect programs they use to seize computers and rope them into larger collections of similarly compromised machines known as botnets. And they have far more in mind than flooding servers or propagating worms. Botnets provide an efficient, distributed architecture for staging large-scale raids on information and blasting spam. As such, they're reflective of the evolution of cybercrime from mischievous hacking and malware-writing to well-organized schemes for stealing data on a global scale and selling it for maximum profit.

Fortunately, there are ways to defend against the threat of bots. Educating Internet users and enforcing acceptable use policies are great places to start. But of course, finding the right security technology is key in the fight against bots.

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