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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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Network Security Architecture: Best Practices & Tools

eSecurity Planet

Network security architecture is a strategy that provides formal processes to design robust and secure networks. This article explores network security architecture components, goals, best practices, frameworks, implementation, and benefits as well as where you can learn more about network security architecture.

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How to Secure DNS

eSecurity Planet

The domain name system (DNS) is basically a directory of addresses for the internet. Your browser uses DNS to find the IP for a specific service. For example, when you enter esecurityplanet.com, the browser queries a DNS service to reach the matching servers, but it’s also used when you send an email.

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What Is a DMZ Network? Definition, Architecture & Benefits

eSecurity Planet

DMZ networks typically contain external-facing resources such as DNS, email, proxy and web servers. However, when your DMZ network includes a proxy server, administrators also have the option to filter all internal internet usage through the DMZ.

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Transform your Architecture for the Cloud with MVISION UCE and SD-WAN

McAfee

“Features are a nice to have, but at the end of the day, all we care about when it comes to our web and cloud security is architecture.” – said no customer ever. As a result, organizations are coming around to the realization that digital transformation demands a corresponding network and security architectural transformation.

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Cuttlefish malware targets enterprise-grade SOHO routers

Security Affairs

Researchers at Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs discovered a new malware family, named Cuttlefish, which targets enterprise-grade and small office/home office (SOHO) routers to harvest public cloud authentication data from internet traffic. The malicious code can also perform DNS and HTTP hijacking within private IP spaces.

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Implementing Zero Trust: Beyond Internal Network Models

Security Boulevard

Are you similarly asking the same questions — for each connection that originates inside your network and tries to talk to a remote piece of Internet infrastructure outside your network, why are we talking to it, who is it really, and should we be talking to it? That’s the role of Protective DNS.

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