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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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4/27/2017 | 2:40:36 PM
Case in point: have you ever seen an I.T. job description that (after the last of skills required) said something like "Or someone capable of learning these skills rapidly". Nope. Hiring managers and recruiters tend to look for a very specific set of skills, which is severely limiting their candidate pool.
There is no shortage of smart people with I.T. backgrounds who could do security analysis if given the opportunity, and they probably already exist in your department.
So, because of a lack of initiative / concern/ and vision, these positions continue to go unfulfilled. Heck, even if I am wrong, the Pros are out there to be hired if you pay them what the market demands. If you arent willing to do that, then you cant blame a lack of security pros. Instead you must blame your own priority list not being ordered properly.