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Strengthen your Zero Trust Security Using DNS and DDI

DDI and DNS Security provide holistic visibility, granular DNS filtering for least privilege access, continuous monitoring with proactive threat detection, enhanced security and automation to enforce Zero Trust.

Zero Trust:
The Growing Challenge

The traditional perimeter security model is no longer effective in todayโ€™s increasingly complex and interconnected environments. This is especially true for organizations with hybrid multi-cloud environments, driving the adoption of Zero Trust. Zero Trust enforces a โ€œnever trust, always verifyโ€ principle, treating every user, device, and application as untrustworthy by default.

However, implementing Zero Trust presents challenges, including integration with existing infrastructure, lack of network visibility, interoperability between systems, and ensuring scalability.

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EMA Zero Trust Report: Key Insights

The EMA Zero Trust Networking Report identifies DNS as a key enabler of Zero Trust, supporting policy enforcement, enhanced authentication, threat detection, and network segmentation. 56% of organizations use DNS filtering for policy enforcement, while 53% leverage DNS-based network segmentation to limit lateral movement, highlighting the growing role of DNS in Zero Trust Segmentation.
Additionally, 50% value DNS traffic visibility and inspection for Zero Trust. Finally, network observability tools are important to Zero Trust success, according to 96% of IT professionals.

Enabling Zero Trust Security Using DNS Security and DDI

DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) and DNS Security solutions are pivotal to Zero Trust success. EfficientIP DDIย  delivers a single-pane-of-glass across all connected network devices and objects.ย 

 

As the first service in any communication, DNS is ideally positioned as the first line of defense, applying the โ€œnever trust, always verifyโ€ principle.

 

EfficientIPโ€™s DNS Security strengthens this with granular DNS filtering, DNS-Centric threat intelligence, real-time behavioral threat detection, and adaptive responses integrated across the security ecosystem.ย 

 

Together, DDI and Zero Trust DNS Security enable organizations to confidently implement Zero Trust strategies to reduce risk and secure hybrid and multicloud infrastructures, beyond what generic Zero Trust vendors provide.

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Zero Trust Microsegmentation: Putting DNS Application Access Control at the Forefront

EfficientIPโ€™s DNS Security Solution enables Zero Trust Network Access through highly granular filtering capabilities with Client Query Filtering (CQF) to enforce least-privilege access at the individual client level. By categorizing devices (e.g. internal, VIP, IoT) and domain names through tags, CQF enables security and networking teams to set, centrally manage, and apply tailored security policies, filtering DNS requests using threat intelligence feeds like DNS Threat Pulse.ย  By doing this, CQF restricts untrusted devices to authorized domains and ensures that only trusted devices have access to required resources, reducing attack surfaces and preventing lateral movement through effective Zero Trust Segmentation.

DDI as a Foundation for an Extended Network Source of Truth (NSoT)

EfficientIPโ€™s DDI extends beyond DDI resources, creating a comprehensive asset inventory that includes IP addresses data lake, but also VLANs, VRFs, users, applications, and network objects. This comprehensive NSoT ensures consistency control and extended visibility to reduce risks.

Seamless integration with security tools such as SIEM, SOAR, or NAC ensures consistent management and enforcement of up-to-date security policies across hybrid, multicloud, and on-premises networks by automatically synchronizing IP addresses or device-related data to support Zero Trust security - something most Zero Trust vendors struggle to integrate at the IP level.

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Continuous Monitoring with Real-time DNS Threat Detection

EfficientIPโ€™s DNS Security extends Zero Trust with real-time DNS traffic inspection and AI-driven threat detection. DNS Transaction Inspection (DTI) provides in-depth DNS transaction analysis that, combined with User Behavioral Analysis, helps identify the most complex threats including zero-day.

With AI-Driven algorithms and domain behavior analysis, threat detection is further elevated to identify phishing, DGAs, and data exfiltration early.

Fast Threat Response with Security Ecosystem Integration

Adaptive countermeasures like IP blocking and Quarantine Mode, combined with integration into SOAR, SIEM, and NAC platforms, enable fast and efficient threat containment across hybrid networks.

By sharing actionable DNS data and events, EfficientIP enhances the effectiveness of existing tools, streamlines security workflows, and improves SOC efficiency. This unified approach reduces response times, minimizes operational overhead, and simplifies Zero Trust enforcement across hybrid, multicloud networks.

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Request A Demo of EfficientIP DNS Security

EfficientIPโ€™s 360ยฐ DNS Security offers a comprehensive, flexible, and robust solution, positioning DNS as the first line of defense against a wide range of threats, ensuring data protection, service continuity, and operational efficiency.

The Benefits of EfficientIP Solutions for Zero Trust

With EfficientIPโ€™s comprehensive solutions, organizations can make their Zero Trust journey more effective for their networks. Strengthening Zero Trust security using DNS and DDI brings the following benefits:

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Simplified Network Zero Trust Segmentation

Leveraging comprehensive, consistent IP addresses data from IPAM to enforce Zero Trust Segmentation across networks.

Heightened Security Posture
Enhanced Access Control

Highly granular user-based DNS filtering policies and network segmentation enabling application zoning and and enforcing the principle of least privilege access

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Enhanced Security and Network Collaboration

DNS monitoring and analytics for proactive anomaly identification, investigation, and integration with security tools

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Enhanced Threat Detection

Real-time in-depth DNS transaction inspection combined with user behavioral analysis and AI-driven threat detection algorithms

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Increased Operational Efficiency

Effective threat handling from prevention to response and automation of security workflows

Enhanced Network Resilience
Improved Network Resilience

Protective DNS security for continuous verification, real-time DNS analytics and monitoring, and adaptive response

"Most enterprises leverage DNS to optimize zero trust network segmentation and enhance threat detection."

Shamus McGillicuddy

VP of Research Network Infrastructure and Operations

Key Resources

To learn more on how SOLIDserver DDI (DNS-DHCP-IPAM) solutions can add value to your zero trust model, check out these pieces of content:

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