Boston, April 14, 2020 – The Domain Name Service works diligently in the background to route requests to the proper destination on the internet, and the power and technology behind DNS are unknown to most internet users. But for savvy cybersecurity professionals, DNS-derived data can reveal a broad range of attacker activities. Until now, however, using DNS data for cyber defense was limited by an inability to get extremely large data sets quickly and a lack of expert cyber analysts. This Impact Brief describes how DNS can be used as part of a comprehensive cyber defense program, how the availability and analysis of DNS data feeds have recently accelerated, and how one organization uses DNS data to rapidly detect and block attacker activities.

Clients of Aite Group’s Cybersecurity service can download this eight-page Impact Brief. To learn more about the topic covered in this Impact Brief, please contact us at [email protected].

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