DNS archives

When Was the Last Time You Trusted Anything Free?

Let’s say you’re shopping around for a new car. You’re checking out your options when you are presented with Car 1 and Car  2.

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How the Medical University of South Carolina Became Future-Proof

The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) is complex, high performance environment.

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The Cold Hard Facts Behind Free DNS

Organizations rely on DNS for critical business applications with many enterprises using a combination of DNS, DHCP and IPAM solutions, including free…

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How Kohl’s Freed Themselves from Free Microsoft DNS

As one of America’s largest retail department store chains, Kohl’s manages a massive number of IP addresses.

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DNS: A Security Differentiator for System Integrators

At BlueCat’s first annual System Integrator Summit, companies in the Federal system integrator and partner community met to learn more about the strong…

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Secure Electronic Voting Through DNS

With the November 7 election looming, state and local governments are scrambling to secure their electoral systems.

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Horror Stories from Microsoft DNS Users

What is your worst nightmare?
A break-in to your home while you’re asleep? Falling into a pit of snakes à la Indiana Jones?

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How DDoS attacks use DNS as a weapon

Bad actors know that DoS and DDoS attacks can use DNS as a weapon to cause spectacular web crashes that bring critical business services to their knees.

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DNS in the Cloud: Where, When and Why

Chances are your organization is either working on a cloud strategy or has already implemented one.

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BlueCat Welcomes JISA Delegates to Toronto HQ

Whether it’s translating domain names to IP addresses, or translating English to Japanese, there is never a dull moment at BlueCat.

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Is your DNS being held hostage?

In the second of this three-part series on DNS as a naïve enabler in malicious cyber activity, we introduce persona No. 2, DNS as a hostage.

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The Role of DNS in SCADA System Security

Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems are the most important networks you’ve never heard of.

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