Symantec has a message for bot herders: Beware. The security vendor is <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2191668,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594">expanding its managed security service</A> to provide protection against bots through its Global Intelligence Network.

By integrating new bot intelligence into its security services, Symantec officials said they can provide additional insight into bot networks and other unauthorized communications with rogue servers. The company's Global Intelligence Network allows Symantec on an around-the-clock basis to find bot activity from its threat data sources, identify malware and correlate blacklist information with what would otherwise seem to be benign activity.