Tim Polk: Dissecting Commerce, DHS plan to mitigate botnet threat

NIST's Tim Polk joins the Federal Drive to dissect the draft strategy of the Homeland Security and Commerce Departments for mitigating risks from botnets

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Automated cybersecurity attacks using botnets have been a persistent problem for years. Back in May, a Trump administration executive order assigned the Commerce and Homeland Security Departments the new task to come up with a strategy for mitigating the botnet threat. Now the two departments have issued their draft strategy. Tim Polk, internet standards lead at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, a subsection of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin to explain what the agencies found.

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