From darkreading.com
DNS plays a critical role in every network. However, it is often overlooked by many security solutions and not integrated into cyber hygiene programs, leaving an easily-accessed back door open for criminals into many networks.
Protecting your DNS is protecting your business
DNS plays a critical role in every network. However, it is often overlooked by many security solutions and not integrated into cyber hygiene programs, leaving an easily-accessed back door open for criminals into many networks.
DNS – the danger
Several factors make DNS especially attractive to the bad actors of the cyber world.
Due to its ubiquitous but behind-the-scenes nature, DNS can be neglected by system administrators. Depending how IT/IS and security departments are configured, the DNS environment may be the responsibility of a person or team incentivized by system reliability and uptime, not security.