Views from IT Experts on the Security Dangers of DNS Risks

"Nearly half of IT and business professionals surveyed by Mazerov Research reported a security compromise of their Domain Name System servers, despite spending money on overlapping security products." A interesting part of the study was that users did not rate losing DNS not a high concern. But without DNS users can't get their emails if their DNS servers goes down because of a attack. When thinking about security DNS must be at the top of the list.

Nearly half of IT and business professionals surveyed by Mazerov Research reported a security compromise of their Domain Name System servers, despite spending money on overlapping security products.

The independent study of 465 people, conducted on behalf of Secure64, found that "[n]early half (45%) of the participants had experienced a compromise of either their internal, external or caching DNS servers."

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