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Technology lecture
IT Security Talks

Why DNS is Your First Line of Defense Against Malware and Data Theft

DNS sees almost all IP traffic, which can be analyzed in real-time to enhance attack detection/mitigation and feed information to SOCs.

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Data security / DLP / Know-how protectionNetwork Security / Patch ManagementSIEM / Threat Analytics / SOC

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Wed, 04/14/2021, 12:00 - 12:15

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Technology lecture

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In this zero trust era, DNS remains a favorite target and vector due it’s criticality for linking users to apps. The IDC 2020 Global Threat Report revealed 79% of organizations were victims of DNS attacks, with 82% of them suffering application downtime and 50% cloud downtime as a result.

But as it sees almost all network traffic, DNS is also by nature your first line of defense against malware, ransomware and data theft, filling security holes left by traditional systems such as firewalls and IPS.

For a successful zero-trust strategy approach, organizations need to elevate their DNS security through the implementation of advanced threat detection capacity with user behavioral analytics (UBA).

Real-time analysis of DNS traffic - end-to-end from client beh ...