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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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2/13/2017 | 12:51:07 PM
Nice write-up, Terry.
Your term "ridiculously simple" about the Mobile Assault Fix is a more important one than some of us would want to acknowledge, I think.
I agree that for a lot of business travel, temporary suspension of access to some data or some apps while traveling need only be a small price to pay relative to the threat of a serious breach. In the consumer space, the potential risk posed by insecure Internet-enabled toasters and Internet-enabled toothbrushes outweighs the value these things can possibly generate by so many times, it's not even funny.
Engineers and computer scientists tend to have a "yes we can" mentality to using technology to solve human problems. Without it, horses would still be our main mode of travel and the abacus would still be our main tool for supporting mathematical calculations.
But as we zero-in on making security much more of a priority in light of what adversaries are capable of now, we as business people, consumers, IT and cyber security professionals have to get better at picking our battles.
There will always be lots of use cases in cyber security where we have no choice but to engage in pitched battles against our opponents, facing off with the very latest in cutting edge technology. No quarter asked - and none given. Sometimes with no spending limit either.
But there are also some cyber security battles that are just not worth fighting - engaging in them actually plays right into the hands of adversaries.
We've got to be better served by more of us being willing to embrace the full end to end gamut of high tech and low tech cyber security options that are available to us, if only we'd pause to seriously consider them all.
That has to be better than automatically rising to the challenge - or the bait - each and every time.