The Importance of DNS - By Infoblox

The Importance of DNS

By Craig Sanderson | Vice President, Principal Cyber Security Strategist

Infoblox | Cyber Security Software Company of the Year 2023

Threat actors are increasingly exploiting DNS to evade traditional security defenses and build industrial-scale malware platforms. The lack of adoption of DNS security and protective DNS services and over-reliance on traditional cyber defences has allowed the cybercrime economy to grow to a size eclipsed only by China and the United States.

The sheer scale of cybercrime requires the application of AI and machine learning to address what has now become a big data problem. With 92% of malware reliant on DNS, organizations must harness the unique visibility that DNS can provide while also taking steps to secure the integrity of what is a mission-critical network infrastructure.

At Infoblox, our goal is to enable organizations to implement the important but often hard-to-tackle topic of DNS easily and conveniently and leverage the existing DNS infrastructure to provide a highly scalable malware mitigation platform. With our unique approach to threat intelligence that applies advanced AI algorithms to sift through huge volumes of DNS data, Infoblox Threat Intelligence changes the game by targeting not just the malware but the foundational malware infrastructure that so many bad actor campaigns rely on.

More recently, with the announcement of Infoblox SOC Insights, Infoblox can provide organizations with unique, actionable insights into the threats they are facing, helping SOC teams and threat analysts prioritize what to focus on by providing the critical network and threat context to accelerate incident response.

DNS is fundamental to the industrial scale of cybercrime and DNS provides the best foundation for a malware mitigation and incident response strategy. In a world of AI-driven threats cyber defenders must integrate DNS into their security operations and architectures.