360° DNS Security: Your First Line of Defense Strengthen DNS Security to proactively protect, detect early, and respond effectively to sophisticated DNS threats throughout their lifecycle. DNS: Critical Yet a Prime Attack Target DNS servers are the backbone of modern networks, enabling essential services like email, internet, and cloud applications. However, their critical role makes them a top target for cyberattacks. Malware actors exploit DNS in 85% of cyber assaults, including DDoS attacks, phishing, DNS hijacking and data exfiltration. DNS attacks cause an average of $1.1M in damages per incident. Traditional security solutions often lack the visibility and protection needed to combat these sophisticated threats, leaving organizations exposed. The industry’s shift to a Zero Trust framework validates this risk. Additionally, regulatory pressures, such as GDPR, NIS 2 and DORA demand stringent DNS Threat Protection, DNS Threat Detection and DNS Threat Response. A comprehensive 360° DNS Security strategy is essential to address these challenges, ensuring data protection, service continuity, and operational efficiency. Robust DNS Security: Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover EfficientIP’s 360° DNS Security provides a comprehensive, flexible, and robust solution positioning DNS as the first line of defense against evolving cyber threats to secure public and private DNS infrastructures across diverse networks. “Replacing Infoblox and Microsoft DNS with EfficientIP has dramatically improved our network security and management. The unified platform simplifies operations, enhances security, and provides significant cost savings.” Giacomo Tizzanin IT Manager, Idroelettrica S.p.A Is Your Network Exposed to Data Exfiltration? Test your network to identify vulnerabilities using a DNS-Centric free toolkit. Get Started DNS Security Solution Key Benefits EfficientIP's Protective DNS Security Solution delivers robust, scalable DNS Threat Protection to safeguard your network against evolving threats while ensuring service continuity and operational efficiency. FASTER & DEEPER THREAT DETECTION Quickly identify sophisticated threats using breakthrough and AI-Driven technologies. EFFECTIVE DNS THREAT RESPONSE Respond efficiently with patented adaptive countermeasures, integrating seamlessly with the security ecosystem. ELEVATED SECURITY POSTURE Safeguard networks, apps, data, and users from extensive DNS threats internally and externally. ENHANCED SERVICE CONTINUITY Global, intelligent DNS-layer protection minimizes disruptions and restores operations quickly during disaster events. INCREASED OPERATIONAL EFFICIENCY Automated DNS threat detection and DNS threat response minimize manual intervention and improve incident response times. IMPROVED RISK MANAGEMENT AND COMPLIANCE Robust DNS security brings threat detection, monitoring, incident response, and reporting to improve cyber resilience. The EfficientIP 360° DNS Security Solution EfficientIP’s 360° DNS Security provides network security teams, network engineers, NetOps, SecOps, and SOCs with the tools needed to manage DNS attacks throughout their lifecycle, ensuring data protection, service continuity, and operational efficiency. The solution proactively protects data, users, and applications by blocking malicious domains with advanced DNS filtering and up-to-date DNS-centric threat intelligence. It detects sophisticated threats early, including zero-day attacks, phishing, dns hijacking, DDoS attacks, DNS tunneling, and data exfiltration, through patented AI-driven technologies. Additionally, it effectively responds with adaptive countermeasures and seamless integration into the security ecosystem, ensuring rapid threat remediation and enhanced operational resilience. Proactively Protect Data, Users, and Applications EfficientIP’s DNS Security solution features a strong foundation with advanced mechanisms like the Hybrid DNS engine switch, DNSSEC, and the world’s fastest DNS cache to prevent severe DNS attacks like volumetric DDoS attacks. As a Protective DNS (PDNS) solution, it provides advanced filtering and granular, client-based policies to block malicious domains before resolution. Centralized policy management simplifies deployment and ensures consistency. Paired with up-to-date DNS-centric threat intelligence, it delivers robust protection against evolving threats. EfficientIP Client Query Filtering Demo Video While authentication has its place, it's not enough to stop malware. A more robust approach involves client-level filtering using microsegmentation and a blocklist or whitelist. DNS can be leveraged for this, creating an initial line of defense. Watch the demo video of EfficientIP Client Query Filtering (CQF) that offers granular filtering (microsegmentation) combined with allowlisting or blocklisting to provide a powerful checkpoint for App access control. Detect Sophisticated Threats Early Deep analysis of DNS requests through advanced DNS Traffic Inspection (DTI), User Behavioral Analysis, and patented AI-driven algorithms - including Tuple Clustering, Natural Language Processing (NLP), and image recognition - work together to detect sophisticated attacks early. These include zero-day threats, DGAs, phishing, data exfiltration, DNS tunneling, dns hijacking, command and control, and phantom or sloth attacks. By identifying threats at their earliest stages, this comprehensive approach empowers security teams to prevent even the most advanced attacks from disrupting business operations. Effectively Respond to Threats Based on threat analysis and pre-defined policies, adaptive countermeasures effectively mitigate threats while reducing false positives. The adaptive countermeasures include patented technologies such as quarantining suspicious IPs and protecting cache services with Rescue Mode. Near real-time DNS analytics empower SOCs and SecOps to investigate threats quickly. Seamless integration with security tools such as SOAR, SIEM, or NAC via APIs or security events enables automated threat remediation. This approach streamlines security workflows, improves incident response times and mean time to repair (MTTR), and ensures service continuity, enhancing operational efficiency and strengthening overall network protection. Leading the Way in Zero Trust DNS Security EfficientIP’s 360° DNS Security is recognized as a comprehensive solution to enforce Zero Trust security. It delivers continuous verification and monitoring of DNS requests, advanced DNS-centric intelligence, and automation. The solution enforces least-privilege access through micro-segmentation and user-based DNS filtering, powered by accurate, up-to-date malicious domain feeds. Centralized policy management ensures only authorized users and devices access critical resources, enabling application zoning to reduce attack surfaces and prevent lateral threat movement. With real-time analytics and adaptive countermeasures, EfficientIP’s empowers network and security teams to deliver dynamic DNS Threat Response while ensuring compliance and operational resilience. EMA Zero Trust: How Network Teams Support Cybersecurity This report reveals essential tools & technologies used by network teams for building and managing effective Zero Trust architectures. Download the free report to discover the crucial role of DNS for ensuring robust security and optimal network performance in Zero Trust environments Read Free EMA Report Products EfficientIP’s 360° DNS Security solution comprises a suite of advanced products: SOLIDserver DDI Provides advanced DNS security mechanisms like Hybrid DNS, DNSSEC, and RPZ-based firewalling to ensure availability and protection. Explore DNS Guardian Delivers advanced DNS security with patented DNS Transaction Inspection, User Behavioral Analysis, highly granular DNS filtering, adaptive countermeasures, and ecosystem integration. Explore DNS Threat Pulse (DTP) Multi-source threat intelligence feed delivering insightful, actionable data in real-time to proactively defend against DNS cyber threats. Explore DNS Intelligence Center (DNS IC) Unified cloud-based portal delivering insightful, actionable, and reliable DNS analytics with detailed domain information for DNS-centric intelligence. Explore DNS Blast Carrier-grade DNS DDoS attack protection to combat extreme volumetric threats from the world’s fastest DNS cache appliance. Explore DNS Firewall Purpose-built and complementary solution to traditional enterprise network security systems, to protect against DNS-based malware and advanced persistent threats (APT). Explore Key Resources Discover more content related to DNS Security. 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