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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

Domain name service (DNS) attacks threaten every internet connection because they can deny, intercept, and hijack connections. With the internet playing an increasing role in business, securing DNS plays a critical role in both operations and security. Everything You Need to Know.

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2024 State of Cybersecurity: Reports of More Threats & Prioritization Issues

eSecurity Planet

50,000 DDoS attacks on public domain name service (DNS) resolvers. 553% increase in DNS Flood attacks from 1H 2020 to 2H 2023. DDoS attacks on single networks or websites render them unavailable, but DDoS attacks on DNS resolvers bring down all networks and websites using that DNS resource.

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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Server: Provides powerful computing and storage in local, cloud, and data center networks to run services (Active Directory, DNS, email, databases, apps). Domain name system (DNS) security: Protects the DNS service from attempts to corrupt DNS information used to access websites or to intercept DNS requests.

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Versa Unified SASE Review & Features 2023

eSecurity Planet

While some devices may connect directly to Versa secure gateway functions, some organizations will prefer to use the traditional hub and spoke network models and use Versa CSG appliances as the gateway between secured networks. must strongly consider this product.

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

eSecurity Planet

Managed detection and response (MDR) services monitor a broad array of alerts, often delivered to a security incident and event management (SIEM) tool or an internal SOC and then remediate any detected attacks. and then monitors the endpoint alerts to respond to detected threats. assets (endpoints, servers, IoT, routers, etc.),

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Spear Phishing Prevention: 10 Ways to Protect Your Organization

eSecurity Planet

For the purpose of establishing connections, they may refer to past events, colleagues, and shared experiences. contaminated attachments, links to counterfeit websites, or instructions for performing activities that could pose a security risk) is commonly included in the message. Read more: What is Network Security?

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APT trends report Q1 2021

SecureList

They are designed to highlight the significant events and findings that we feel people should be aware of. Although Lyceum still prefers taking advantage of DNS tunneling, it appears to have replaced the previously documented.NET payload with a new C++ backdoor and a PowerShell script that serve the same purpose.

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