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Mitigating Cyberattacks on Financial Sector with DNS Security

The financial sector has gradually outsourced banking and financial services, migrated apps and data to the cloud, and developed platforms allowing customers to carry out their transactions online. But digitizing banking services and associated data increases vulnerability to cyberattacks, and the potential reward for successfully hacking a financial institution is huge. Attacks targeting DNS in particular have become very common due to its criticality to the network – practically all network connections are initiated using DNS – so findings in...

SOLIDserver IPAM Integration to Cisco DNA Brings Last Mile Automation

EfficientIP DDI solution (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) is now available on the Cisco Marketplace as a companion to the intent-based network solution Cisco DNA. After the availability of the DNS Guardian security integration with Cisco Umbrella, weโ€™ve now brought robust IPAM to Cisco DNA. The EfficientIP product suite offers rich automation processes linking all the components of its ecosystem, from IPAM to DNS and DHCP services, but also with applications, devices and network discovery. Combining these automation capabilities with the Cisco DNA solution...

Data Regulations 2020: Time to Step up Your Data Theft Protection

Todayโ€™s data-driven economy is being led by personal data, so naturally focus is turning more strongly to privacy and protection. New regulations have appeared over the last few years, but 2020 will see a rapid acceleration, particularly in regions such as America and APAC. While itโ€™s only fair that regulators introduce these new laws with their associated fines for data breaches, companies are still finding it extremely challenging to ensure confidentiality of their data. Cybercriminals are smart guys – data...

DNS Flag Day 2020: Improving Internet DNS Security

Although the DNS protocol is not secured by default, it is mainly used on IP networks as the key element to convert application names to technical addresses. Following the 2019 DNS Flag Day, which targeted protocol compliance on EDNS, the 2020 version will focus on operational and security problems caused by Internet Protocol packet fragmentation. Fortunately, EfficientIP customers will not suffer any issues, as our DNS servers already support the 2020 Flag Day recommendations, complying with standards and RFC. DNS...

Predictions 2020: Networks and IT Biggest Impacts

From 5G driving SDN and NFV, to exploding enterprise apps, edge computing, connected hybrid clouds and, of course, cybersecurity, the new decade in 2020 promises to be very eventful for network and security managers across the globe. Here are our predictions for the top five trends that will shape technology and the networks industry in the coming year. 1. Infrastructure will move closer to the edge Progressing towards multiple clouds is a really smart move. It helps ease digital transformation...

2019: The Year That Saw Cost Per DNS Attack Soar Past $1M

For organizations globally, across all industries, cybersecurity was once more one of the hottest topics of the year. The SonicWall report states that in just the first nine months 7.2 billion malware attacks were launched, with IoT malware worryingly increasing by 33% to 25 million. As the frequency of attacks continued to increase, DNS remained a favorite target, as well as an attack vector (91% of malware are using DNS). The IDC 2019 Global DNS Threat Report revealed 82% of...

GSLB & Automated Application Deployment

Deployment or migration of applications in multi-cloud infrastructures can be made simpler and faster by using GSLB configuration to connect users to the newly-released app. When automation is used in the context of application continuous deployment, making use of an automated DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) solution which is capable of also handling applications is really valuable. This is what EfficientIP brings to automation teams with its application repository and its edge DNS GSLB solution. The multi-cloud mix of internal and external infrastructure...

What Smart DDI Means for Hybrid Clouds in Asia Pacific

This weekโ€™s blog comes to us from our very own Nick Itta, VP Sales APAC. The growth of Asiaโ€™s digital economy is happening at breakneck speed, boosted by a high level of interconnected networks comprised of organisations and consumers. With a massive amount of IT infrastructure supporting the backend, organisations are striking a balance between managing data on private IT infrastructure or in public/private clouds, finding a middle ground referred to as the Hybrid Cloud. As business needs evolve given...

Tufin Integration with EfficientIP DDI: Keeping Security Policies Current and Consistent

Digital transformation, cloud deployment and other network evolution projects are providing tremendous value to enterprises by linking people to processes and data. But at the same time, when it comes to keeping infrastructures secure, they add significant complexity. The consequence is that network managers are finding it very challenging to ensure security policies are always accurate & up-to-date, across the entire company footprint. It should be a basic requirement to be able to deploy and make changes to applications and...

Five Predictions for Asia Pacific DNS Security in 2019

This weekโ€™s blog comes to us from our very own Nick Itta, VP Sales APAC.With 2018 coming to a close, Iโ€™ve engaged with companies and organizations across Asia Pacific, discussing their plans of attack for strengthening cyber security. During these conversations, several recurring themes have emerged, providing some insight into what we can expect in the year ahead. Here are my five predictions for the state of Asia Pacificโ€™s DNS security in 2019: 1. Learning from 2018โ€™s Lessons on Personal...

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