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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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7/25/2019 | 8:07:12 AM
If we look at this statement, this could affect company's bottom lines because of the sheer volume of data being sent across the network; cloud providers like IBM and Google will protect customers but AWS and Azure will charge customers for ingress data streams. There are organizations that provide a level of protection from a DDoS standpoint but that should be a service provided by the CSP, some of the organizations that help mitigate the problem that is listed on the market place are: (DDoS Protection Companies):
A boatload of others can be found on the link; however, if companies utilized marketplace vendors to address this problem, they will still be charged because of the application is found inside of the Virtual Gateway (VGW), since they are using quasi radius method of accounting, the organizations who have purchased internal marketplace solutions will still be affected; those that have purchased external DDoS solutions (i.e Akamai or CloudFlare) won't feel the financial crunch as much as others, this will be more of an insurance policy.
Todd