DNSDNS SecurityFive Predictions for Asia Pacific DNS Security in 2019This week’s blog comes to us from our very own Nick Itta, VP Sales APAC.With 2018 coming to a close, I’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 Pacific’s DNS security in 2019: 1. Learning from 2018’s Lessons on Personal...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityIPAMNetwork AutomationPrivacy LawsVirtualization & CloudIT and Networks 2019: Prediction of Biggest Impacts2019 is here, so it’s time to look closer at what this year will bring for network management, IT digital transformation and cybersecurity. What recent trends will plant their feet and stand firm? What overhyped buzzwords will prove to have no substance? And, importantly, what actions will organizations take from the multiple cyber attacks which dominated 2018? From network automation and SDN taking off, to the reappearance of zero trust and the continuous impact of current GDPR regulations, here we...
DNSDNS SecuritySecure Your Network with DNS: Episode 2 – Maximizing Application Availability & User ExperienceThis blog is the second of four episodes which help describe best practices for utilizing DNS to protect your overall network. The internet would be nothing without the DNS and many recent events have highlighted this fact the hard way (Dyn attack, various ISP DNS outages, etc.). While routers are routing IP packets across the network, DNS is routing all the communications between the users and their applications, as well as the communications between the applications themselves. As a result,...
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...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityAnyone For Tennis? Serving Up Secure DNSIf you think about the ideal scenario for a hacker to gain access to systems, you would come up with a large attack surface and lots of opportunity to disguise attacks as genuine network access. Imagine a network with thousands of potentially unauthenticated devices converging in a short period of time, producing extreme spikes in traffic. Sound like the crowd at a sporting event? Going for gold – the motivation of elite hackers In many ways, the attacks facing the...
