{"id":12557,"date":"2025-11-20T07:55:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T15:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.infoblox.com\/?p=12557"},"modified":"2025-11-17T03:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T11:31:14","slug":"a-new-chapter-in-dns-security-and-control-infoblox-for-external-authoritative-dns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/blog\/company\/a-new-chapter-in-dns-security-and-control-infoblox-for-external-authoritative-dns\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Chapter in DNS Security and Control: Infoblox for External Authoritative DNS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, enterprises have trusted Infoblox to maintain rock-solid reliability for internal networks using our industry-leading DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI) solutions. But corporate networks are just one side of the digital world. Customers reach you through websites, APIs, email and other internet-facing applications that depend on <em>external<\/em> DNS\u2014and those services are increasingly scattered across clouds and software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, we <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/news\/news-events\/press-releases\/infoblox-surpasses-200-customers-in-breakout-year-for-universal-ddi-and-announces-new-capabilities-for-network-transformation\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> Infoblox for External Authoritative DNS\u2014an expanded portfolio that brings Infoblox resiliency, visibility and unified management of foundational network services to public-facing applications. Whether you host your own external authoritative DNS servers or use a third-party cloud or SaaS provider like Cloudflare or Akamai, you can maintain a single DNS management plane for your entire digital estate. You can view and manage all DNS records\u2014for internal networks, internet-facing services and public and private clouds\u2014through a single API and the Infoblox Portal. So you can drive down configuration errors and outages, accelerate changes and defend against attackers seeking to compromise your customers and brand.  <\/p>\n<h3>What\u2019s New<\/h3>\n<p>The newly expanded portfolio includes three main components:<\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, working with Infoblox\u2019s NIOS WAPI requires consulting static documentation. With Swagger support:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-spacing\">\n<li><strong>Unified DNS Management\u2014Now Including Cloudflare and Akamai<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/insights.infoblox.com\/solution-notes\/infoblox-solution-note-infoblox-universal-ddi-management\"HYPERLINK \"https:\/\/insights.infoblox.com\/solution-notes\/infoblox-solution-note-infoblox-universal-ddi-management\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Infoblox Universal DDI\u2122 Management<\/strong><\/a> already provided a single, enterprise-wide control plane for managing DNS across internal networks, Amazon Route 53, Azure DNS and Google Cloud DNS. Now, we\u2019ve added support for two of the leading external DNS SaaS hosts too, with the ability to manage Cloudflare and Akamai from the same API and the Infoblox Portal. By managing more of the business\u2019s mission-critical services from the same place, using the same workflows and automation, teams can deploy faster while minimizing configuration errors\u2014the leading cause of downtime.<sup>1<\/sup><\/li>\n<li><strong>Adaptive Security for Self-Hosted External DNS<\/strong>: If you self-host your own external authoritative DNS servers on NIOS, that infrastructure must stay exposed to the wide-open internet; that\u2019s just how external DNS works. But you don\u2019t have to leave it unprotected. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/products\/dns-infrastructure-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Infoblox DNS Infrastructure Protection<\/strong><\/a> (formerly Advanced DNS Protection, or ADP) can absorb and mitigate a broad range of volumetric and non-volumetric DNS attacks that can knock web applications offline, including distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, DNS exploits and other threats. It keeps your websites, email and other public-facing applications available and responding to legitimate queries\u2014even while under attack.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Protection Beyond the Perimeter<\/strong>: Lookalike domains are among the fastest-growing and most effective cyberattacks. By exploiting social engineering and end-user typos, they mimic legitimate websites to steal user credentials, intercept multi-factor authentication (MFA)\u202fmessages\u202fand damage the company\u2019s brand. Infoblox\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/products\/brand-protection\/\"HYPERLINK \"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/products\/brand-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Brand Protection services<\/strong><\/a>, Lookalike Domain Monitoring and Domain Mitigation &#038; Takedown, can continually detect and rapidly remove fake domains before they damage your organization\u2019s reputation\u2014typically within 72 hours.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The Need for Non-Stop Resiliency in External DNS<\/h3>\n<p>Why is external authoritative DNS so important? First, because it\u2019s foundational to just about every digital interaction with customers. DNS is like the \u201cdigital phone book\u201d that tells applications how to find your business. If external DNS fails, your websites, internet applications and everything connected to them can go dark\u2014no connections, no business. The costs of such failures add up quickly. Large businesses can lose up to $1.4 million per hour of downtime,<sup>2<\/sup> and the average DDoS attack lasts 68 minutes.<sup>3<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, external authoritative DNS servers remain exposed to the internet, where they become prime targets for cyberattacks. Threats to external authoritative DNS include: <\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-spacing\">\n<li><strong>DDoS attacks<\/strong>, which\u202foverwhelm servers with massive traffic from multiple sources, causing websites to crash\u202f(Cloudflare identified 10.5 trillion DDoS attack requests\u2014and more than 59 petabytes of DDoS attack traffic\u2014in the first quarter of 2024 alone.)  <\/li>\n<li><strong>DNS\u202fhijacking<\/strong>, where attackers tamper with DNS records to\u202fredirect traffic to a malicious site\u202f\u202f <\/li>\n<li><strong>Cache poisoning<\/strong>, where attackers inject malicious or invalid data into a network\u2019s cache, either to serve malicious content or redirect users to malicious sites\u202f <\/li>\n<li><strong>NXDOMAIN exploits<\/strong>,\u202fwhich\u202fflood DNS servers with queries for non-existent domains, causing service disruption <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Finally, beyond the huge volume and velocity of cyberthreats, the damage caused by a successful attack on external DNS infrastructure can be much worse than other types of threats. Your organization\u2019s external\u202fauthoritative\u202fDNS\u202frecords\u202fget\u202fdistributed across\u202frecursive DNS servers worldwide\u2014that\u2019s how users find your websites.\u202fSo, if an attacker\u202fis able to\u202fhijack or\u202falter\u202fthose records, it can take hours,\u202feven days\u202fto correct all that bad data, during\u202fwhich your websites, email and other online apps may be totally unreachable.\u202fMajor outages\u202flike these\u202fhave cost online retailers tens of millions.<\/p>\n<h3>Protecting Your Business\u2014However You Handle External DNS<\/h3>\n<p>No matter how you currently handle external authoritative DNS, Infoblox can help you simplify management, block malicious\u202fthreats\u202fand keep your critical public-facing networks and applications online.\u202fThat includes:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"list-spacing\">\n<li><strong>Defending Self-Hosted External DNS<\/strong>: Many organizations\u2014especially those with strict compliance or data governance requirements\u2014prefer to host their own external authoritative DNS infrastructure, so they can maintain tight control over DNS records and data. With DNS Infrastructure Protection, you can harden authoritative servers against volumetric and non-volumetric attacks and ensure that legitimate traffic can still reach your sites and services\u2014even while your DNS infrastructure is under heavy attack.  <\/li>\n<li><strong>Providing a Single Point of Control for SaaS-Hosted DNS<\/strong>: Many other businesses outsource external DNS services to a cloud or SaaS provider like Cloudflare or Akamai, who handle external DNS scaling and security on their behalf. If that\u2019s how you handle external DNS (whether you retain control of a \u201chidden primary\u201d DNS server or just delegate zones to the SaaS host), you can simplify operations and drive down risk with Universal DDI Management. By monitoring and managing all DNS in the same way, from the same place, there\u2019s dramatically lower risk of costly configuration errors than when swiveling between multiple dedicated tools.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Building Redundancy against Cloud\/SaaS Provider Outages<\/strong>: When it comes to mission-critical online services, even the largest, most trusted cloud and SaaS providers still have occasional incidents. So, if you\u2019re relying on a single SaaS host for external DNS, you\u2019re taking a real risk. If that provider has an outage, your entire online presence may be out of commission until they resolve it. The solution: diversify your authoritative DNS. Use a reputable cloud or SaaS service, but augment it with your own smaller, self-hosted external authoritative DNS infrastructure on NIOS and DNS Infrastructure Protection, running concurrently with the SaaS service. Now, if the SaaS provider ever has an outage, your self-hosted infrastructure is still available\u2014and your websites and services stay online.  <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Learn More<\/h3>\n<p>External DNS is too important to your business and your customers to leave fragmented or underprotected. With Infoblox for External Authoritative DNS, you can unify management across every DNS surface, harden mission critical authoritative servers against modern attacks and build real resilience\u2014without re-architecting what already works. No matter where your DNS lives\u2014whether you self-host, use a SaaS service or run a hybrid model\u2014Infoblox can help you maintain non-stop availability, security and control.  <\/p>\n<p>For more details on how to protect self-hosted external DNS servers, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infoblox.com\/products\/dns-infrastructure-protection\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>DNS Infrastructure Protection<\/strong><\/a> webpage. And watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WUqoheX9MY8\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>this video<\/strong><\/a> to see how Universal DDI Management seamlessly integrates with Cloudflare and Akamai external DNS.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:18px;\">Footnotes<\/h3>\n<ol style=\"font-size:14px;\">\n<li>Uptime Institute\u2019s 2022 Outage Analysis Finds Downtime Costs and Consequences Worsening as Industry Efforts to Curb Outage Frequency Fall Short, Business Wire, June 8, 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20220608005265\/en\/Uptime-Institutes-2022-Outage-Analysis-Finds-Downtime-Costs-and-Consequences-Worsening-as-Industry-Efforts-to-Curb-Outage-Frequency-Fall-Short\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20220608005265\/en\/Uptime-Institutes-2022-Outage-Analysis-Finds-Downtime-Costs-and-Consequences-Worsening-as-Industry-Efforts-to-Curb-Outage-Frequency-Fall-Short<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>The rising cost of downtime, Blau, Adam, BigPanda, April 25, 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigpanda.io\/blog\/it-outage-costs-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/www.bigpanda.io\/blog\/it-outage-costs-2024\/<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li>Average DDoS Attack Cost Businesses Nearly Half a Million Dollars in 2023, According to New Zayo Data, Zayo Group, February 15, 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zayo.com\/newsroom\/average-ddos-attack-cost-businesses-nearly-half-a-million-dollars-in-2023-according-to-new-zayo-data\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>https:\/\/www.zayo.com\/newsroom\/average-ddos-attack-cost-businesses-nearly-half-a-million-dollars-in-2023-according-to-new-zayo-data\/<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<style>\n.code-format {\n\tfont-family: 'Courier New';\n}\n.image-caption {\n    font-size: 12px;\n}\n.list-spacing li{margin-bottom:10px}\nol.list-spacing > li::marker {\n    font-weight: 700;\n}\n.entry-content ul.list-spacing ul > li {\n    list-style-type: square;\n}\ntable {\n    font-size: 16px;\n    word-break: keep-all;\n}\n.calloutbox td {\n    padding: 20px;\n    font-size: 18px;\n}\n<\/style>\n<p><script>\njQuery('.single h1').html('<span class=\"gradient\">A New Chapter in DNS Security and Control<\/span>: Infoblox for External Authoritative DNS');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years, enterprises have trusted Infoblox to maintain rock-solid reliability for internal networks using our industry-leading DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI) solutions. 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