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Educational Institutions Need to Rethink Network Security and Modernization

By: Mansoor AlShalahi, Country Manager for Saudi Arabia at Infoblox   The pandemic has forced many industries, including educational organizations to transform the way that they operate. Educational institutions need to ensure that online or emergency remote teaching and learning doesn’t fall short of expectations or negatively impact the desired academic outcomes, and must therefore keep their…

DNS is an Indispensable Part of a Modern Security Toolkit

By: Cricket Liu, Chief DNS Architect at Infoblox   As I’m fond of saying, back in the early days of BIND name servers—when I got my start in DNS—they had a whopping two security features: They didn’t accept responses from IP addresses they hadn’t queried (colourfully known as “Martian responses”) and they stuck a random, 16-bit number into outbound queries and verified that the number came back…

Anatomy of a DDoS Attack: Extortion and Mitigation

By: Ali Sleiman, Technical Director MEA at Infoblox   Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) is a cyber attack that causes mass disruption of services. From 1996 (when first reports about DDoS attacks emerged) to 2010, threat actors used DDoS mainly to promote themselves or political agendas and to encourage social change; in recent years, the financial motive has been more prevalent and more DDoS…

Why Securing Today’s Hybrid Workplace Needs an Ecosystem Approach

By: Krupa Srivatsan, Director of Product Marketing at Infoblox   The way we live and work today has significantly changed over the last two years. Gartner forecasts that 31% of all workers and 47% of all knowledge workers worldwide will continue to be remote in 2022. This hybrid workplace model puts huge digital demands on enterprise networks including things like ensuring remote connectivity,…

Tips for Safeguarding against Ransomware Attacks

DNS security remains the first line of defense, as ransomware and most malware use DNS at one or more stages of the cyber kill chain By: Mohammad Jamal Tabbara, Solutions Architect Manager at Infoblox   Ransomware attacks have stepped up and it has become one of the most damaging threats today. Ransomware attacks are being more frequently carried out by nation-states and organized crime and…

2022 Networking Trends from Infoblox

Cricket Liu, EVP and Chief Evangelist at Infoblox   There shall be increased use of DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) by malware because DoH provides an encrypted channel to the DoH server. DoH adoption is increasing and malware developers are more aware of it as a means to bypass security controls.   ISPs and enterprises will deploy DoH defensively on their own DNS infrastructure (to prevent fallback to…

DNS Evolution Critical to the Adoption of 5G and Next Generation Network Technologies, Infoblox Research Finds

December, 2021 ‒ Infoblox Inc., the leader in Secure Cloud-Managed Network Services, announced new research that identifies the challenges Communication Service Providers (CSPs) face in transitioning to distributed cloud models, as well as the use cases for Multi-access edge computing (MEC), 5G New Radio (NR), and 5G Next Generation Core (NGC) networks.   The report, titled “DNS and the Edge: The…