DNS SecurityHow DNS Security Protects the Financial Industry Against CyberattacksFor many years, the volume of sensitive customer and financial data in circulation have made the financial services sector an attractive target for attackers, and the COVID-19 pandemic has further enhanced this, creating new risks for banks, trading platforms and other financial institutions. The rapid shift to distributed and remote workforces has resulted in more complex company networks revealing weak points in IT security concepts. An increased reliance on cloud services in combination with the swift acceleration of connected devices...
DNSDNS SecurityTackling Cyberattacks on Government with DNS SecurityCyberattacks spare no industry. One popular target for hackers is the Domain Name System (DNS), which can easily be exploited without adequate security measures due to its openness. DNS attacks within the government sphere are particularly dangerous: since governments and their institutions handle extensive amounts of highly sensitive personal information (such as voter and tax data), the repercussions of an attack are vast, making DNS security measures to prevent damages a critical component of any government’s digital infrastructure. With governments...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityDNS Security in Healthcare: Paving the Way Toward Secure Health InfrastructureIn recent years, the pace of digitization in the healthcare sector has accelerated rapidly. Devices and applications in hospitals are increasingly connected via IoT, while patient data in many countries is being recorded and shared in new and innovative ways—this is expanding the types of services patients can use, as well as make their care more efficient. In many ways COVID-19 has exacerbated these trends, as the demand for telemedicine applications and remote working solutions is at an all-time high....
Application Traffic RoutingDDIEdge DNS GSLB for Corporate CDN: Improving UX and BandwidthAs previously described in our ”Predictions 2020” blog, workloads will progressively move this year from central cloud locations to edge ones. Digital transformation and new usages like device data collection, augmented reality or contextual video advertising are requiring more capacity from IP networks and shorter delays, which may be incompatible with cloud computing. In this context, Edge DNS GSLB is a very simple solution for intelligently directing users to their local computing resources, thus improving both UX and bandwidth utilization....
DDIDNSDNS SecurityIPAMVirtualization & Cloud2019: The Year That Saw Cost Per DNS Attack Soar Past $1MFor 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...
DNSDNS SecurityWhy Protecting DNS Requires More Than Firewalls(This week’s blog article was originally published in March 2017, but still rings true today). Way back when, in the early days of the Internet, all we needed to protect our systems was a firewall. You’d set up a Nokia box or a Cisco PIX, enable a few rules, and walk away, safe in the knowledge that your servers and services were protected. But the world has changed, and despite the hard work of the firewall vendors, the threat landscape...
DNSDNS SecurityEurope Opens Up Its Wallet for DNS Attack Cost2019 marks another year of hikes in the DNS attacks experienced by organizations, as well as the cost of them. Hackers are also changing up the tactics they use to break into their favorite company websites. European organizations might have a number of options for protecting themselves in the future, zero trust among them, but will it be enough to stop those tooled up and scrappy hackers? More attacks, but some more popular than others Four in five, 82% of...
DNSDNS SecurityBlack Friday – DNS at the top of hackers’ shopping listsIt’s that time of the year again! This year Black Friday falls on the 24th of November, the day after Thanksgiving. The Black Friday shopping craze extends around the world, reaching retailers and shoppers in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Mexico, India and France. The masses of shoppers squashed like sardines in a can, shoving and fighting each other for the best bargains, are mostly now online. This heavy web traffic heading towards DNS servers worldwide has provided hackers...
DNS SecurityPublic Sector Network Security: A Race Against TimeAs we move more and more of our government-citizen interactions online, making sure we have access to those services becomes increasingly important. After all, we don’t want to be collateral victims of a DDoS attack on a government server just as we’re trying to submit our tax returns. Even more important is ensuring the personal information that the public sector (both local and national government) stores is secure. Databases of government-held information are the most worrying, whether they’re run by...
DDIDNS SecurityIPAM2016 in Review: A Year of Network Security Landscape ChangesNetwork security and data protection remain at the top of many CIOs and CSOs’ agendas, as increasingly powerful privacy regulations threaten significant fines for breaches and information leaks. Getting security right means protecting the user first, with the added incentive of protecting a company’s revenues. Dealing with an ever-evolving and increasingly complicated threat landscape, organizations, more than ever need both the right mechanisms and approaches in place and start treating the problem, not just the symptoms. From millions of records...
