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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 | 2:15:59 PM
I'd say we're trying to hire too many people in infosec. We created roles around minute specifications for some reason, not sure why.
Entry level roles in infosec should not exist. We should be demanding 5 years of demonstrated excellence in some IT field with some evidence of the ability to be flexible (e.g. windows/messaging does some coding and *nix) before considering a more holistic IT-biased role in security. There are so many reasons for this, too many to cover here. The counter to this could be that there aren't enough wizards that fit this description, but i believe we need _fewer_ people, not more...but that's a story for another day :)
A team of 400 security staff employed by a large bank coiuld be reduced to 6.
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