DDIDNSDNS SecurityIPAMSOLIDserver 8.1: Simplifying Multi Cloud Management and App Access ControlThe Release 8.1 of SOLIDserver enhances multi cloud agility and efficiency for organizations by simplifying and automating cloud management, as well as enabling zero trust network security by improving application access control with simpler microsegmentation. With the addition of Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to AWS and Microsoft Azure, organizations are given the capability to move more easily between individual cloud providers according to their business needs, helping avoid cloud lock-in. And on the network security side, the new release incorporates...
DDIDNSDNS Security2021 Year in Review: Networking and Security in a Pandemic WorldWith the Covid pandemic still ongoing, 2021 turned out to be a very disruptive year for organizations and their network infrastructures. For every industry, cyberattacks remained top of mind as cases of ransomware and data theft continued to rise, putting the spotlight on zero trust strategies and threat protection solutions such as DNS Security and Application Access Control. Hybrid work models and multi cloud adoption also brought their own challenges, particularly in the areas of resource visibility, network management efficiency...
DDIDHCPDNSDNS SecurityIPAMVirtualization & CloudSOLIDserver Release 8.0: Enhancing Multi Cloud Control and SecurityThe Release 8.0 of SOLIDserver puts strong focus on support of multi cloud services and strengthening of DNS Security, thus helping network teams improve control and visibility over their entire infrastructure. In particular, it enhances the existing DNS Cloud feature with Azure DNS Zones capability, and builds on EfficientIP’s award-winning DNS Guardian solution for improving filtering of DNS queries and expanding capacity of security policies. The main features introduced with Release 8.0 include the following: 1) DNS Cloud for Azure...
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...
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...
DDIDNSDNS VNF Dynamic Scaling with Zero Touch ProvisioningVirtualization is reaching the network world with network function, scaling, Network as a Service and Zero Touch Provisioning (ZTP). As we discussed in our previous blog on 5G and NFV, the DNS service is a really good candidate for automatic instantiation and scaling, helping to optimize costs and improve UX . DNS architecture intrinsically proposes such evolution and there is room for hybrid DNS topologies which combine hardware and software. Dedicated hardware DNS covers the need for high performances as...
