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Everything You Need to Know About DNS AttacksIt's important to understand DNS, potential attacks against it, and the tools and techniques required to defend DNS infrastructure. This report answers all the questions you were afraid to ask.
Domain Name Service (DNS) is a critical part of any organization's digital infrastructure, but it's also one of the least understood. DNS is designed to be invisible to business professionals, IT stakeholders, and many security professionals, but DNS's threat surface is large and widely targeted.
Attackers are causing a great deal of damage with an array of attacks such as denial of service, DNS cache poisoning, DNS hijackin, DNS tunneling, and DNS dangling. They are using DNS infrastructure to take control of inbound and outbound communications and preventing users from accessing the applications they are looking for. To stop attacks on DNS, security teams need to shore up the organization's security hygiene around DNS infrastructure, implement controls such as DNSSEC, and monitor DNS traffic
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10/20/2014 | 3:29:06 PM
First, there's nothing you can do about it. High speed software development is happening and it's very unlikely that security can make it stop (not that you'd want to). If you try you will make yourself extremely unpopular and get marginalized. Ultimately, you'll end up hurting security by getting yourself cut out of the loop.
Second, these movements are a *massive* opportunity to do security better. These efforts are establishing the infrastructure necessary to do security at high-speed. Security folks just need to learn about the tools being used for software development -- tools like Jenkins, Sonar, JIRA, Puppet, and others are easy to leverage to do realtime application security at scale.
Try the free Contrast for Eclipse with your Java developers, and see what a huge difference *fast* can make. It really does change everything.
--Jeff