DDIDNSDNS SecurityHybrid Workforce: Who’s Managing DNS?Post pandemic situation sees the confirmation of working from home but also working from anywhere. After COVID-19, 92% of eligible people expect to work from home at least 1 day per week, and 80% expected to work at least 3 days from home per week according to a survey by Owl labs. Most enterprises seem to accept this new paradigm as it improves the overall productivity of the workforce. Provided the logistics of working outside the Enterprise can be addressed,...
DNSDNS SecurityAugmenting Zero Trust: Why Using DNS Allow Lists is a No-BrainerYou can’t control what you can’t see, as the saying goes. One of the main pillars of Zero Trust Foundations is Granular Visibility and Control on the traffic. This means being able to differentiate the sources of the traffic (microsegmentation) and their related destinations. From there, security wise, one can decide what has to be done, allowing or denying source-destination combinations. Regarding granular visibility, DNS by nature sees all traffic intents at the earliest possible point in the IP traffic...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityIPAMNetwork AutomationTop 5 IT Network and Security Predictions for 2022Welcome to 2022, a year which promises to be full of turbulence with the pandemic still ongoing and organizations forced to adopt hybrid working models. Network security and privacy will no doubt be top of mind across all verticals, especially with users needing to access critical apps, services and data when working either on-premise or remotely. Risk limitation of IoT will also be essential as the number of devices grows exponentially driven by 5G, and smart cost-effective solutions for managing...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityIPAMNetwork AutomationA Modern DDI Solution Enables Successful Partnerships Between NetOps and SecOpsThis week’s blog comes courtesy of guest author Shamus McGillicuddy (VP of Research at EMA), a leading industry analyst covering enterprise network technology. Network operations (NetOps) and security operations (SecOps) teams have increased collaboration in more than 75% of enterprises, according to new research by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA). Digital transformation is a significant driver of this collaboration. About four out of five enterprises reported that NetSecOps collaboration is in response to public cloud adoption, work-from-anywhere initiatives, data center modernization,...
DNSDNS SecurityHow DNS Security Protects the Most Targeted Industry: TelecomsThe past year has only increased the pressure placed upon the telecoms and media industry as companies continue their transition to the hybrid working model post pandemic and organizations continue to implement 5G. The rise in demand has left mobile operators and ISPs increasingly prone to threat actors using DNS to target the industry. The impacts of these cyber threats are felt globally, as telecoms provide the infrastructure needed to go about our daily lives, from our work to our...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudSimplify Management of DNS Services with DNS Cloud Extension to Azure DNS ZonesHardening your DNS infrastructure Securing your Internet visibility at a global scale is easily achieved using Public Cloud DNS Services. To avoid Public Cloud vendor lock-in you need a solution that will simplify and unify the management of your public DNS Zones while hardening security. EfficientIP DNS Cloud does just that and more. DNS Servers deliver critical services to your organization but they are exposed to attacks from the Internet. In the IDC 2021 Global DNS Threat Report, 76% of...
DDIIPAMSigns It’s Time To Upgrade Your IPAMAs the technology that drives business forward evolves, so does the need for a more complex network that keeps everyone securely connected. An improved IP address management (IPAM) solution upgrade can help make it easier to build and maintain an inventory of your networks, subnets and IP addresses, and preserve the health of your network overall. A timely upgrade can help you efficiently manage this vital area of your organization. Learn more about modernizing your IPAM solution and how a...
DNS SecurityHow DNS Security Can Help The Very-Targeted Healthcare Industry Fight BackThe COVID-19 pandemic has placed an incredible pressure on the healthcare industry, not just in the physical world but also in the digital one. Healthcare is uniquely vulnerable to cyberattacks, particularly attacks utilizing DNS. In the 2021 Global DNS Threat Report, just released by EfficientIP and IDC, we see how threat actors are targeting the DNS of verticals such as healthcare, as well as what companies are doing about it. Why threat actors love to target healthcare Healthcare is an...
DDIIPAMNetwork AutomationAutomating Security Compliance with SOLIDServer IPAM and Tufin IntegrationYou can’t secure what you don’t know As we know at EfficientIP, managing security of the IP Infrastructure nowadays is challenging. The move to cloud, deployment of SD-WAN networks and Zero Trust requirements increase complexity by adding new devices and configuration processes. Users are more ubiquitous, application deployment more frequent, hybrid cloud deployments present in most enterprises while threats have never been stronger. This is why we developed our SOLIDserver solution around our IPAM.Tufin is a leading vendor in the...
DNSDNS SecurityThreat Actors Have Grown Smarter in Their DNS Attacks. Here’s How Companies Should Respond…Over the past year–during the COVID-19 pandemic–businesses have accelerated their digital transformation as the pandemic has continued to require off-premise working and online or cloud-based products and services. But digital transformation is not the only area to experience vast change during the pandemic. Our annual report with IDC reveals that attackers have changed their tactics this year, growing more diverse in their methods for abusing the DNS protocol; businesses have had to pivot to smarter methods in order to keep...
