National Webcast Initiative

Invasion of the "Bots"
You Could Be A "Zombie" and Don't Know It!

Wednesday, May 18, 2005

The sixth session in the National Webcast Initiative series took place on May 18, 2005. More than 1,200 individuals representing 8 countries registered for this event. The topic of the webcast was Invasion of the “Bots” with a featured presentation by Bill Hentschell , Cisco Systems, Inc., Security Specialist and Wayne Hauber , Iowa State University Systems Analyst. Opening remarks were provided by Ms. Liesyl Franz, Director of International Affairs and Deputy Director for Outreach and Awareness, National Cyber Security Division, a Division of the US Department of Homeland Security, and Mr. William Pelgrin, Chair of the MS-ISAC.

The May 18th National Webcast Initiative focused on:

  • How to defend against BotNets,
  • What to do when your machine has been compromised; and
  • How to respond when your machine has been controlled by BotNets.

To learn more about BotNets, please visit the webcast related material links below and the National Webcast Initiative powerpoint presentation.

Webcast Related Material
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View the Archived Webcast Recording

Questions and Answers Transcript

View the 5/18/05 - 3:00pm Eastern - National Webcast Initiative PowerPoint Presentation ~ View Presentation

Glossary of Terms

List of References

Current Malware Threats and Mitigation Strategies ~ Download/View: Worddoc || HTML || PDFpdf ~

The Department of Homeland Security US-CERT and the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have partnered to establish the National Webcast Initiative to develop a series of national webcasts which will examine critical and timely cyber security issues. Embracing the concept that security is everyone’s responsibility, these webcasts will be available to a broad audience to help raise awareness and knowledge levels. A number of vendors have offered their services at no cost to government, to help develop and deliver the webcasts.

The National Webcast Initiative is also coordinated by the New York State Office of Cyber Security and Critical Infrastructure Coordination(New Window) and the New York State Forum(New Window) . If you have any questions, please contact 518/473-4383 or email to isac@cscic.state.ny.us .

(If you require a copy of an accessible version of the powerpoint presentation or a pdf document,
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