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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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How to Prevent DNS Attacks: DNS Security Best Practices

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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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What Is Stateful Inspection in Network Security? Ultimate Guide

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What Stateful Inspection Defends Against Stateful inspection protects network assets against attacks that attempt to corrupt or abuse processes such as TCP or Domain Name Service (DNS) that don’t check context when they receive data packet instructions. instead of eSecurityPlanet.com.

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VulnRecap 2/19/2024: News from Microsoft, Zoom, SolarWinds

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February 19, 2024 ExpressVPN Split Tunneling Disabled after Discovered Vulnerability Type of vulnerability: DNS traffic leak. The DNS traffic wasn’t traveling to the ExpressVPN servers like it was supposed to but instead to a third-party server.

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How To Set Up DMZ on Servers: 7-Step DMZ Configuration

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP) servers: Transfer files securely across the internet. Domain Name System (DNS) servers: Translate domain names to IP addresses. You’ll also need to give the DNS server and default gateway an IP address. Email servers: Facilitate email transmission and reception. How Many Firewalls Do You Need?

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How Cobalt Strike Became a Favorite Tool of Hackers

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Pentesting involves vulnerability exploitation and post-exploitation actions – the idea is to conduct a real attack, like cybercriminals would do, except with an explicit authorization from the company in order to identify weaknesses and improve security defenses.

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What Is a Firewall Policy? Steps, Examples & Free Template

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Examples include Users, User Groups, Applications, Application Groups, Countries, IPv4/IPv6 Endpoints, Host DNS Names, and more. These rule objects provide detailed control over user and application-specific traffic, boosting security and resource management.

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