by DNSFilter Team on Oct 8, 2024 2:52:53 PM
DNSFilter Cofounder and CEO, Ken Carnesi, was named a 2024 Tech Titan in Washingtonian.
Carnesi’s firm specializes in the often-ignored art of stopping problematic content at the domain-name-system layer. As Carnesi said in a column for Forbes this spring, “Most breaches and attacks use DNS because it’s used everywhere and for a long time, nobody was watching.” It’s a tool set that’s been adopted by clients like the fitness chain Equinox.
At the scale of the Internet, threats are relentless. Domain Name System (DNS) technology is over 40 years old, but it remains just as relevant today—if not more so—to help organizations stay secure from malicious threats. What most people don’t know is that more than 70% of attacks involve the DNS layer. Every malicious request blocked represents a real attack prevented, real harm avoided, and real people protected. This underscores the power of...
Cybersecurity experts expect a significant surge in tax-related scams in the final month before Tax Day.
There's a contradiction in cybersecurity: humans can be both the weakest link and the strongest. For instance, humans are highly susceptible to deception. This is an age-old problem; look no further than the Trojan Horse of Greek lore or the Ghost Army of World War II. In the latter case, Allied forces created inflatable tanks and faked radio traffic, among other deceptive tactics across Europe, to confuse, distract and divert enemy forces and sa...