156-215.80 · Question #488
Which Threat Prevention Software Blade provides protection from malicious software that can infect your network computers?
The correct answer is C. Anti-bot. The Need for Anti-Bot There are two emerging trends in today's threat landscape: A profit-driven cybercrime industry that uses different tools to meet its goals. This industry includes cyber-criminals, malware operators, tool providers, coders, and affiliate programs. Their…
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Which Threat Prevention Software Blade provides protection from malicious software that can infect your network computers?
Options
- AAnti-Malware
- BIPS
- CAnti-bot
- DAnti-Spam
How the community answered
(32 responses)- A3% (1)
- B3% (1)
- C94% (30)
Explanation
The Need for Anti-Bot There are two emerging trends in today's threat landscape: A profit-driven cybercrime industry that uses different tools to meet its goals. This industry includes cyber-criminals, malware operators, tool providers, coders, and affiliate programs. Their "products" can be easily ordered online from numerous sites (for example, do-it-yourself malware kits, spam sending, data theft, and denial of service attacks) and organizations are finding it difficult to fight off these attacks. Ideological and state driven attacks that target people or organizations to promote a political cause or carry out a cyber-warfare campaign. Both of these trends are driven by bot attacks. A bot is malicious software that can invade your computer. There are many infection methods. These include opening attachments that exploit a vulnerability and accessing a web site that results in a malicious download.
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