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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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3/31/2017 | 4:48:50 AM
In the intervening years that mystique has been largely blown away and now pretty much anyone can create very sophisticated systems without having to refer to the IT wizards.
I've long felt that many IS professionals act like the old IT mystics, with whispered references to VPNs, TLS, 2048 bit keys, SOCS, SIEMS and heaven knowns what else, all in an attempt to make it seem more difficult than it actually is.
In the same way as IT has been democratised and made avaialble to all, we need to move IS out of the central mystics and into the mainstream business areas. The data belong to the business, the risk should be owned by the business but for some reason we still seem to try to put blockers in the way of the business taking effective ownership of their security.
That won't remove the need for IS professionals any more than putting IT into the hands of the business removed the need for IT professionals, but it will have the dual advantages of spreading security across the business, and allowing the IS Professionals to focus on new, interesting, stuff and not get bogged down in another round of Security 101 briefings.