Worth Reading: A new report on defending against botnets On May 11, 2017, the President issued Executive Order (EO) 13800, “Strengthening the Cybersecurity ofFederal Networks and Critical Infrastructure,” calling for “resilience against botnets and otherautomated, distributed threats.”1 The President directed the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretaryof Homeland Security to “lead an open and transparent process to identify and promote action byappropriate stakeholders” with the goal of “dramatically reducing threats perpetrated by automatedand distributed attacks (e.g., botnets).” Related
