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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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12/6/2016 | 8:35:55 AM
Don't get me wrong, the DHS is doing some good work in this area such as NCATS, the National Cybersecurity Assessment and Technical Services, https://www.us-cert.gov/ccubedvp/federal. In pursuing NCATS for my company's products, I encountered some pushback from a couple of our most knowledgeable security engineers. This is understandable given the role of the NSA and other government agencies in subverting the security of US-made networking products. The blowback of these activities, many of them revealed by Edward Snowden, continues to plague US businesses. For example, I recently had a European customer tell me that AWS was not suitable so long as US engineers have access to datacenters serving their customers.
Regulation of network gear is indeed necessary and overdue, but how to regulate and who will do it remains a problem.