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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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12/2/2013 | 7:28:42 PM
One of the biggest reasons employees use corporate email addresses to send non-business emails is to send files. With the advent of cloud storage, this has probably dropped the number of folks using corporate email in a way that would lend itself to data loss risk. In reality, most security tools should be able to flag emails with sensitive information, so at this point, what would encryption really achieve?
Yes, sending corporate emails in general has the risk of potentially being intercepted by unwanted parties, but until we can prove without a doubt, that this form of encryption is indeed untampered, there is really no immediate benefit in terms of security in the way that Microsoft would probably like to believe.