The Domain Name System (DNS) has been around for nearly 40 years, yet surprisingly few organizations understand what a critical security tool it can be. DNS can play many vital security roles on a ...

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 ...

Administrators have made improvements in the security of the Domain Name System during the last year, but DNS complexity and a lack of resources have resulted in major security gaps being left in the ...

What if the Domain Name System (DNS) ensured that only authenticated and authorized users could access a company's email server or VPN gateway? That's what one of two new technologies for DNS name ...

According to CISA, most cyberattacks, including ransomware and BEC, start with phishing. The losses companies are experiencing due to ransomware are exceeding billions annually. In response, ...

DNS servers resolve web address names to IP addresses that your computer can use, but problems with these servers may result in performance issues. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has ...

Momentum continues to build for rapid deployment of Domain Name System encryption mechanisms. Seven leading domain-name vendors — representing more than 112 million domain names or 65% of all ...

The task of mapping friendly URL names to underlying IP addresses falls to the DNS, a collaboration of many entities across the Net. This guide will give you pointers on implementing DNS safely in ...

The Domain Name System (DNS) is a distributed database system used to translate hostnames (i.e., www.purdue.edu) to IP addresses (i.e., 172.31.9.5) and to translate IP addresses back to hostnames. The ...