Countries should seek to eliminate - not just manage - Botnets and Cybercrime, says new CFR report

Although there have been some high-profile, successful takedowns of botnets, efforts to date have been disjointed, focusing separately on internet service provider (ISP) notifications to owners of infected systems or law enforcement efforts to arrest those behind the attacks.
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(CFR) November 20, 2018 - “With billions of new devices set to join the internet in the next decade, now is the time to put in place an international regime that works to keep vulnerable devices off the internet,” write Jason Healey and Robert K. Knake in the Council Special Report, Zero Botnets: Building a Global Effort to Clean Up the Internet Environment. Healey and Knake propose a goal of zero botnets to galvanize global policy action.