Botnet Forensic: Issues, Challenges and Good Practices

Abstract

Unethical hacking of sites, probing, click frauds, phishing, denial of services attack and many such malicious practices affects the organizational integrity and sovereignty. Such activities are direct attacks on the safety, security and confidentiality of the organization. These activities put organizational privacy at stake. Botnet forensic is utilized to strengthen the security issues by understanding the modus operandi of the attacks. The available observations can be utilized in future also to prevent a potential threat to network security. This paper enlightens the novel summary of previous survey including life cycle, classification, framework, detection, analysis and the challenges for botnet forensics.