Steve Thamasett is a Senior Security Solutions Architect at CDW•G. Steve is a senior executive with over 20 years of experience covering all aspects of IT infrastructure, policy and planning, business ...

After working in security for a long time, I have encountered many situations where the conclusion was, 'It was DNS after all ...

Cybercriminals today are targeting one of the internet’s least-protected utilities: the domain name system (DNS). Functioning as the internet’s phone book, DNS translates domains, like example.com, ...

For years, we’ve been pioneering the use of DNS to enforce security. We recognized that DNS was often a blind spot for organizations and that using DNS to enforce security was both practical and ...

DNS is once again in the crosshairs of threat actors. According to the 2025 DNS Threat Landscape Report by Infoblox, attackers are changing tactics, and enterprises are feeling the pressure. The ...

New EfficientIP and IDC research sheds light on the frequency of the different types of DNS attack and the associated costs for the last year throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In the United Kingdom, ...

Attacks related to Domain Name System infrastructure – such as DNS hijacking, DNS tunneling and DNS amplification attacks – are on the rise, and many IT organizations are questioning the security of ...

In the early days of networking, if you wanted to send a message from one machine to another, you manually entered the IP address. This quickly became unsustainable as the network grew and heaps of ...

DNS is one of the most critical services on a network. It translates easy-to-remember domain names into difficult-to-remember IP addresses, enabling users and administrators to refer to network ...

The following is an excerpt from DNS Security: Defending the Domain Name System by authors Allan Liska and Geoffrey Stowe and published by Syngress. This section from chapter two explores the ...