DNS Tunneling: How It's Evolved and Four Ways to Reduce the Risk

by DNSFilter Team on Mar 11, 2024 9:00:00 AM

Attacks related to Domain Name System (DNS) infrastructure have been on the rise and most organizations aren’t prepared for the onslaught. In fact, a recent report by Enterprise Management Associates (EMA) found that less than 31% of organizations are confident in their DNS security.

DNS is a component of many different cyberattacks, including ransomware, DNS-based distributed denial of service (DDoS) and DNS tunneling. In that same EMA survey, DNS tunneling was cited as the second-biggest concern organizations had when it came to the security of their DNS infrastructure.

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