Legal Guide to Botnet Research

The Legal Guide to Botnet Research serves as a central resource and tool to advance understanding of legal and policy issues associated with cybersecurity research on botnets. This valuable resource will help determine whether proposed cybersecurity research projects could violate laws or organizational policies. Included in the guide is the Botnet Research Legal Template, which helps clarify which laws are relevant to a particular project and simplifies the analysis required. Additionally, it highlights potential ethical issues and how researchers have been approaching them.