© 2011 - 2015 ThreatSTOP , Inc. All rights reserved. Botnets created and spread by criminal malware are the biggest problem in information security today. They cause great financial and reputational damage to their victims and are not effectively prevented by the current crop of solutions. Research leveraged by ThreatSTOP is emerging as the method to address this growing problem and is becoming a required component of an effective layered defense against cybercriminals, just like anti-virus did starting 15 years ago. An effective firewall setup requires two core elements: 1) A comprehensive and accurate list of IP addresses to ensure users are blocking the right “bad” addresses (low false positives and negatives). 2) Real time updates, because the criminals are constantly changin

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