On Wednesday at an @Microsoft Breakfast Conversation held at Microsoft’s Innovation and Policy Center in Washington, D.C., Microsoft’s Assistant General Counsel Richard Domingues Boscovich participated in a discussion exploring how public-private partnerships can play an important role when it comes to fighting cybercrime.
The panel included a number of individuals at the forefront of the fight against cybercrime, including U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), who keynoted the event; Errol Weiss, director of Citi’s Cyber Intelligence Center and a member of the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC); Joseph Demarest, assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division; and moderator Allan Friedman, research director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution.
In a post today over on Microsoft on the Issues, Boscovich goes into detail about how Microsoft has teamed up with various public-sector agencies and organizations in an effort to stymie botnets.
“The most recent example of this approach being used is when Microsoft cooperated with financial services industry leaders, technology industry partners and the FBI to disrupt more than 1,400 Citadel botnets in June,” Boscovich writes.
To get the rest of the story, watch the video above and then read today’s post over on Microsoft on the Issues, which also includes updated information regarding the percentage of observed Citadel-infected IPs as of Tuesday.
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Jeff Meisner
Microsoft News Center Staff