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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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11/6/2014 | 10:50:39 AM
That's a good question actually. Can we reasonably expect that no one is going to do non work related activities on work computers? No. But what we can expect is that if we say that we don't want people viewing adult material on their work laptops, and someone does, we have the reserved right to take disciplinary action against them for violating company policy. As I may have mentioned, there are products out there that can be installed on work laptops to prevent people from going to websites we don't want them to go to. Plus, with logging and log management systems, we can view practically anything on those laptops. By accepting a work laptop, a person is then accepting the responsibility of said laptop into their care and custody. Once at home, if on the work laptop, the person decides to engage in personal activities that are against company policy, technically, the laptop is still company property and therefore is still subjected to the Acceptable Use Policy, even on business trips or in the home.