DDIDNSDNS SecurityMitigating Cyberattacks on Financial Sector with DNS SecurityThe 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...
DDIDNSVirtualization & CloudDNS for NFV and 5G: Automatic Scaling and Easy InstantiationModern application developments should integrate cloud design principles including meshing, redundancy, horizontal scalability and being event driven. Infrastructure services can follow the same approach for some components that can be distributed. DNS is one of the services that has been designed for meshing, replication, scalability and load sharing. This makes it a really good candidate for Network Function Virtualization (NFV) as seen in telecommunication designs, and especially nowadays in 5G network infrastructures. Digital transformation has pushed some developments and architecture...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityMitigating Data Theft in the Education Sector with DNS SecurityIn recent years the education sector has undergone a significant digital transformation, replacing school books with tablets and in some cases physical classes with virtual classrooms. E-learning platforms and digital devices have become commonplace in most institutions, especially in higher education. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated adoption of digital education tools, prompting ad hoc overnight solutions for remote learning. However, the BYoD culture and rising number of connections from remote locations has led to network security challenges. Cybercriminals have taken...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityEnabling Industry 4.0 Through DNS SecurityIndustry 4.0 is defined as the ongoing transformation of traditional manufacturing and industrial practices combined with the newest smart technology. The aim is to improve processes via leveraging increased automation, machine-to-machine communication and internet of things (IoT) deployments, ultimately reducing the need for human interaction within the overall manufacturing process. The widespread rollout of 5G is expected to speed up the full realization of Industry 4.0, as companies across the entire manufacturing supply chain look to take advantage of its...
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....
DDIDNSDNS SecurityDNS over TLS for Improved PrivacyFor various reasons, DNS transport could be secured through encryption, with DNS over TLS (aka DoT) being one obvious solution to increase user security. User privacy reached the DNS area some while ago – we have seen a massive move from browser solutions to the adoption and more importantly the usage of secured DNS by applying, in some countries, an automatic switch to encrypted transport. DNS is business-critical so has to be secured Why is securing DNS so important? Mostly...
Application Traffic RoutingDDIDNSDNS GSLB & Service Mesh for Continuous DeliveryFor users to access their applications, DNS resolution to determine the destination and IP routing to find the path are mandatory. The application modules and services should be exposed on the servers or facilitator equipment such as a load-balancer. For static installation of applications onto servers, DNS configuration and load-balancing are quite easy, but in modern software architecture based on decoupling and microservices, it is more dynamic and therefore far more complex. This is where service mesh and Edge DNS...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMEnhance Data Management Efficiency Using DDI MetadataDDI solutions consist of tight integration of DNS, DHCP and IPAM services and can be considered as the single source of truth for all IP-related data. This is evident because it contains most of the technical IP-related information, and thanks to the EfficientIP SOLIDserver rich metadata system, it is expandable much further. Associating metadata with any object in the DDI engine allows us to propose facets other than purely technical ones for data management. Based on these additional data we...
DDIDNSIPAMValue of DNS Metrics for Prometheus and GrafanaThe DNS service is critical to any IP network and, in fact to the entire Internet. Therefore it needs to be monitored very seriously. Even if a lot of metrics are available in any DNS engine, only very few are mandatory to be shown on an I&O global monitoring dashboard, starting with the number of requests and recursion rate. As a complete DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) appliance solution, EfficientIP SOLIDserver proposes analytics and performance graphs for the DNS service, either at the...
DDIDHCPDNSIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudEnsuring High Quality Software at EfficientIP with QA Digital FactoryThis week’s blog comes from QA automation expert Nabil Bourenane. There are domains where software requires a high level of quality since any major bug can lead to high service impact. At EfficientIP we are developing such a strategic solution – to put in place a digital testing factory that helps us release stable versions with minimal regression impact. Why do we need a digital testing factory? Our factory is embedded in the development process and serves the following objective:...
