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...
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...
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...
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...
DDIDHCPDNSDNS SecurityIPAM5 Reasons to Choose EfficientIP DDIRequirements of today’s IT infrastructure IT infrastructure has become extremely complex and in perpetual evolution to match ever evolving business needs. In addition to planning the needs for building and running new IT and Network services, decommissioning of resources when they are no longer needed, must now be anticipated right from the get go. Obviously, all this must also be performed while ensuring maximum security, high velocity and reliability in the execution. Not conforming to these requirements would lead to...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityApplication Access Control: It All Starts with DNSMost IP communication starts with a DNS query to translate the server name contained in a URL or any application solution into an IP address. Whether it uses TCP or UDP (or any other communication protocol), and whether it uses IP version 4 or 6, the session will be established after the DNS resolution. DNS is at the intent of any application exchange, it can perform value-added actions like securing the communication, filtering predefined destination sites, optimizing the destination or...
DDIDNSDNS SecurityIPAMNetwork AutomationVirtualization & CloudAccelerating Transition to the New Normal: Top 5 Predictions for 2021After the challenging events in 2020, the effects of the Covid pandemic will continue throughout next year, ensuring remote working & remote customers will remain in the limelight. In order to function, businesses will have no choice but to transform, both from organizational and societal viewpoints. The result will be rapid acceleration of digital transformation projects, covering key initiatives like edge computing, multi-cloud, zero-trust security, autonomous networks and infrastructure-as-code. So as organizations continue their transition to the “new normal”, here...
