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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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11/18/2014 | 7:21:11 AM
Per your comment -
""line-of-business leaders know they need to evaluate vendors based on security but also realize that they don't have the knowledge to ask the depth of questions necessary to truly look out for pitfalls"
What happens when the IT department does not have the knowledge to ask the right questions either? This could lead to a disjointed cloud service being purchased that cannot be supported by the either the LOB or IT organization. When this happens, then the LOB would be forced to find alternatives to help support their cloud services which were purchased outside of the IT department.
I realize that many LOB's utilize cloud services outside of IT organizations line of sight. I for one am not a advocate of this type of IT strategy, as it tends to create more problems in the long term than it solves.