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The Power of the Control Plane
Today’s hackers are all about money, they constantly change the face of their exploits to maximize their returns. These agile attacks require agile defenses. Moving security protections into the network is essential to enabling more reliable updates of threat information; aggregation also provides significant scaling and manageability benefits. DNS-based security protections improve agility because DNS [...]
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A Strategic Vantage Point
The idea of using the DNS for security might be unfamiliar but it has several important characteristics that lend themselves beautifully to addressing today’s dynamic threats. To start with, DNS servers occupy a strategic vantage point with tremendous visibility into what’s happening on networks. Every end user, device, and IP application uses the DNS to [...]
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Smarter DNS Makes a Smarter Security Solution
Network operators and IT departments constantly reassess their security exposure and evaluate the best methods for protecting their networks and end users. New security solutions are always emerging to help them and one that’s starting to receive a lot of attention is the DNS. That’s raising an obvious question: “how in the world does the [...]
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A Better Way to Protect Networks and End Users
Everyone agrees protecting Internet users from malware and social engineering exploits like phishing is a valuable thing to do. At minimum these attacks are a nuisance because they degrade the Internet experience, worst case they can be costly and dangerous. But protecting networks and end users is becoming more difficult because attackers are making their [...]
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Resilient DNS: Maximizing Internet Performance and Preparing for DDOS (part 3 of 3)
Just as it’s important for service providers and enterprises to maximize the performance and availability of their caching DNS servers, it’s important for brand owners and IT departments to ensure the robustness of their Authoritative DNS. Some of the issues are similar, but ensuring security of Authoritative data also has to be considered. Make sure [...]
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Resilient DNS: Maximizing Internet Performance and Preparing for DDOS (part 2 of 3)
An earlier post talked about how important it is to maximize the responsiveness and availability of caching DNS in order to maintain a good user experience. It focused on the benefits of using Anycast. There are several other things worth considering for caching DNS as covered below: Place recursive DNS servers close to customer access [...]
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Resilient DNS: Maximizing Internet Performance and Preparing for DDOS (part 1 of 3)
For network operators, recursive (caching) DNS is a critical service. Without good, fast DNS service, the Internet service appears slow and unresponsive. Caching DNS systems must also be capable of absorbing “spikes” in traffic which can occur for a multitude of reasons – peak loads, Internet events, DoS etc. Over a few posts we’ll cover [...]
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FutureCom Focus on Cybersecurity
The vibrancy of Latin American economies and rapid growth in broadband in the region were on full display at the FutureCom show held in mid September in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Paul Mockapetris gave a keynote speech “The Future of Defense Against Cybersecurity Threats” and conducted interviews as linked below. In this interview with Telesemana Paul [...]
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Q&A Session with New CEO, Gary Messiana
What attracted you to Nominum? Nominum is a major player in the networking world with incredible product and technology assets. Hundreds of millions of users depend on us for DNS every day, making us a force in most markets and geographies. Our unparalleled market success has been fueled by some of the world’s brightest DNS minds, [...]
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Intelligent DNS Will Be Critical in Mobile Networks