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What Is DNS Security? Everything You Need to Know

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DNS security protects the domain name system (DNS) from attackers seeking to reroute traffic to malicious sites. Since a majority of business IT traffic now accesses or passes through the internet, DNS plays an increasingly important — and vulnerable — role.

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

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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

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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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Palo Alto Prisma SASE Review & Features 2023

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Licenses are sold in units, where a unit is defined as one mobile user or 1 Mbps of network bandwidth. Prisma SASE further enforces this capability with robust multi-tenant features and a large number of options to support even uncommon networking and security requirements.

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What is SASE? Secure Access Service Service Edge Explained

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Get the Free Cybersecurity Newsletter Strengthen your organization's IT security defenses by keeping up to date on the latest cybersecurity news, solutions, and best practices. Overcoming Edge Computing Risks This article was originally written by Paul Shread on November 24, 2020 and revised by Chad Kime on August 11, 2023.

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Versa Unified SASE Review & Features 2023

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Pricing & Delivery Pricing for Versa’s SASE product was originally called Versa Secure Access and announced in 2020 to start at $7.50 Since Versa Unified SASE is the only top SASE vendor that offers an option for locally installed SASE control software, buyers with strong security needs (military, biotech, etc.)

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What is a Managed Security Service Provider? MSSPs Explained

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Expanding attack surfaces require additional skills to secure, maintain, and monitor an ever-expanding environment of assets such as mobile, cloud, and the internet of things (IoT). Poor integration of cybersecurity tools and IT infrastructure requires greater expertise to identify and close gaps in layers of security.