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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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4/13/2016 | 6:17:55 AM
However, this only applies to the obvious. Don't download and run applications from attachments. Don't click links in emails from people you don't know. The problem is that many attacks are more sophisticated. In some cases, the phishing attack comes from a compromised email address using language that mimics the hacked sender. In those cases, all of the awareness training available will likely fail.
Creating a Process for flagging potentially malicious activity and quickly removing any threat organization-wide is key to reducing risk of threats introduced accidentally (despite awareness training). Having Technology in place to identify and remediate obvious threats is essential to keeping this process timely and scalable.
Awareness training is important, but simply telling people not to do the obvious isn't enough anymore.