Kelly Jackson Higgins, Senior Editor at Dark Reading wrote in an article indicating that sometimes it takes a DNS attack for an organization to get serious about the security of its Internet-facing DNS name servers. Many of these servers today are still not properly secured or configured, security experts say, leaving them wide open for distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) and other types of attacks.
“There are many organizations who are still in the dark about managing their external DNS,” says David Ulevitch, CEO of OpenDNS. “Just as people run firewalls and anti-spam systems, it’s important for them to manage the DNS coming into, and leaving, their network.
“Many organizations today manage their internal DNS, but leave their Internet-facing DNS wide open to abuse their network and act as a vector for malicious activity,” he says. For the full story click here.
Source: Dark Reading.com – November 15th, 2007 Article by Kelly Jackson Higgins
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