DNS, or domain name system, is how many companies and websites are set up. So how do they protect themselves and their customers? Watch this video as Paul breaks down the basics of protective DNS.
Creating and maintaining a resolving DNS service for your company is not difficult. But you want to ensure your customers, employees, and even investors are protected, and that the data held in your network is secure from attacks and exfiltration. Protective DNS prevents users from entering harmful websites or making clicks that compromise their devices and data. Whether surfing your company website or a link through your website, having protective DNS will help ensure a safe surfing experience.
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PROTECTIVE DNS SECURITY or PDNS: What You Need to Know
Video Transcript
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0:00 Intro
0:24 What Is Protective DNS?
Okay, we're here today to talk about dns protection and privacy, both the theory and the practice. The theory is pretty simple. Sometimes, the practice gets a little bit complicated. I'm Paul Mockapetris. I'm the chief scientist at ThreatSTOP.
So what is protected DNS? Basically, it's a security technology that relies on taking a look at DNS traffic, and what this lets you do is to see where people are going, and lets you deflect them from going to bad places. You can detect outbound attacks in other words.
Sometimes people in your organization will get infected with a virus and they'll start participating in DDoS attacks or whatever you can detect that, and it lets you take the appropriate action.
So it's a technology for doing that and what it does is it rejects web pages and emails, and so forth that it knows are harmful before they even enter your network. So that's a big plus, DNS protective.
DNS is a mandate by several governments in order to adhere to compliance issues like ITAR or just to keep your site safe. So Australia, Canada, Italy, they're all examples of countries that have mandated a certain amount of Protective DNS.
There's other DNS protection things like DNSSEC. We're not going to talk about them today, but you understand that it's part of it, and there's other people who claim that PDNS is an acronym for something else. You got to deal with that.