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IP networks are the bedrock of service provider revenue growth, the catalyst for mobilizing enterprise applications and delivering a favored customer experience.\u00a0 Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and IP Address Management (IPAM) (or DDI) are all familiar terms and concepts.\u00a0 Yet, there has been a lot of change to support the growing needs of IP networks.\u00a0\u00a0DDI solutions<\/a>\u00a0have advanced to include\u00a0DNS security technologies<\/a>, cloud and\u00a0network automation<\/a>\u00a0of advanced IP services, support for IPv6 capabilities, DHCP client-grade performance and converged services.\u00a0 As critical as this is to your business, and considering the rate of technology development, when was the last time you took inventory of your DDI operations?\u00a0 The following is a brief checklist to help you assess what may be missing from your current DDI practice.<\/p>\n

Where Do You Stand?\u00a0 Let\u2019s Find Out.<\/h2>\n

Combining IP inventory, DHCP and DNS configuration via integrated and automated processes reduces errors, saves time, enhances reporting and visibility, and increases the efficiency and quality of network management.\u00a0 Take the following 10-question self-assessment to see how well your organization is performing.\u00a0 If you are meeting or exceeding the described practices for each category, rate your organization a 10.\u00a0 If you are not meeting\u00a0any<\/u>\u00a0of the practices, rate yourself a 0.\u00a0 And, if you\u2019re somewhere in between, consider the factors described and use your best judgment.\u00a0 In the end, add up the totals, assess your strengths and weaknesses, and see where you need to fill the gaps.\u00a0 Ready?\u00a0 Set?\u00a0 Go\u2026<\/p>\n

1. Do We Use Centralized DDI Management?<\/h3>\n

Using manual spreadsheets, home-grown or non-integrated solutions often results in duplicate entries, keying errors, rework and wasted time especially in multi-server, multi-platform (e.g., BIND, ISC, and Microsoft) environments.\u00a0 Centralized DDI is the essential networking technology to link branch offices, remote workers, mobile devices, cloud and more. \u00a0As networks evolve, centralized DDI extends beyond protocol services like single-point data entry, accurate address assignment, inter-system data federation, inventory tracking, change control delegation and name resolution to improve security, gain actionable network insights, and integrate with technology ecosystems.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

2. Are Our DDI Functions Automated?<\/h3>\n

Leveraging templates and automating routine tasks like configuring DNS domain, resource records, reverse zones, and updating IP address, subnet, and DHCP pool assignments saves time, minimizes manual processes and reduces errors and rework associated with distributing the same data through various user interfaces to multiple systems. Automation enables adding new services, identifying DNS security breaches, optimizing application performance, gaining deep insight into network properties, efficient, dynamic IP resource allocation, reduced manual troubleshooting, faster network and service provisioning, better capacity planning and more efficient use of resources.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

3. Does Our DDI System Support Role-Based Access Control and Delegation?<\/h3>\n

Depending on the size and reach of an organization, responsibility for DDI management can be assigned to multiple users across subsidiaries, business units, locations, systems, domains or network topology. \u00a0The ability to define, expand, limit and delegate DDI system administrator and super-user functionality, roles and access to information based on responsibility is critical.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

4. Do We Maintain High Availability (HA) Services?<\/h3>\n

Keeping internal and external business critical apps up and running at peak performance is essential for quality service, brand reputation, and revenue.\u00a0 Deploying DDI services in geo-diverse configurations enables continuity during disaster recovery.\u00a0 Delivering HA apps can also be achieved using multiple DNS servers, DHCP failover solutions and redundant hardware appliances co-located, configured and connected end-to-end, especially for the most critical servers.\u00a0 DNS-based global server load balancers (GSLBs) configured with round robin, ratio, network topology, global or other algorithms provide network visibility and can help balance network traffic to ensure availability and performance of HA services. HA IPAM systems can also be layered on top of DNS\/DHCP services to enable always on, high performing applications.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

5. Do We Consistently Monitor DDI Services?<\/h3>\n

Application availability and performance not only relies on an accurate, timely and consistent deployment of the DDI infrastructure but also requires ongoing visibility across the entire network.\u00a0 Do you know what devices are connected to your network anytime, anywhere, and what they\u2019re doing?\u00a0 Are you watching your services to know if they\u2019re up and performing as expected? \u00a0Are users able to secure IP addresses or hostnames?\u00a0 Can you predict when your IP resources will reach capacity?\u00a0 Should a failure occur, redundant systems will help minimize service outages or performance issues, but having the visibility and forensic tools to monitor, quickly triage, drill down into event and query logs, find the root cause, resolve and rectify the problem will enable ongoing business continuity.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

6. Do We Manage Patches and Upgrades Efficiently?<\/h3>\n

Ecosystems with distributed DNS and DHCP servers often face a tedious and potentially costly, disruptive, error-prone patch and upgrade process.\u00a0 Server inventories must be maintained, hardware, OS and DNS\/DHCP versions must be tracked, compatibilities, resources, costs, logistics, business cycles and schedules must all be considered.\u00a0 Deploying DNS and DHCP appliances with centralized integrated upgrade management enables staging, remote server management, planned kernel, OS and DNS\/DHCP updates, rollbacks, and a streamlined version control process that minimizes many of the costs and challenges associated with system maintenance.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

7. Does Our DDI Enable Core Business Processes and Workflows?<\/h3>\n

Each business, each IP network and the methods for managing these networks can be very different, but the tools for configuring IP subnet, network topology and device attributes can be less flexible.\u00a0 Customizable systems that allow visibility, search, modification of DNS domains, topology, subnets, resource records, and other extensible attributes like URLs, drop down lists, text boxes and other user-defined elements can help drive core business.\u00a0 Adapting data elements and other extensible attributes to business processes, and integrating IPAM into enterprise workflows, saves costs and enables automation.\u00a0 This makes launching new sites, managing IP address requests, tracking device profiles, working trouble tickets and a host of other processes faster, easier, more accurate and less prone to errors and rework.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

8. Does Our Reporting Provide Comprehensive Visibility into Our Network?<\/h3>\n

Pre-built and customizable reporting tools that provide a complete view of the network help to keep applications running, detect security threats, and anticipate resource utilization.\u00a0 Dashboards can deliver visibility into essential network data, access to standard reports, and the ability to build quick custom reports to identify security issues.\u00a0 Reporting also supports audit requests via standard and custom reports and historical views.\u00a0 Advanced reporting tools engage predictive analytics to track and anticipate IP address utilization, resource planning and avoid outages.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

9. Is Our Network Protected Against DNS-Based Attacks?<\/h3>\n

According to recent media reports, 91% of attacks use DNS to infiltrate and exploit its targets.\u00a0 These include DNS DDoS, NXDOMAIN, DNS data exfiltration (through known tunnels), malware, ransomware, and other DNS hijacking exploits.\u00a0 These attacks are growing daily.\u00a0 It\u2019s no longer sufficient for IT teams to rely on infrastructure over-provisioning or response-rate limiting to protect their networks.\u00a0 Teams must be able to distinguish legitimate from malicious queries, respond to the legitimate requests while mitigating the bad actors.\u00a0 Beyond that, the ability to update defenses against new and evolving threats and communicate needed and actionable network threat intelligence are essential to business continuity and application availability and performance.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

10. Can We Proactively Identify and Prevent Cyberthreats?<\/h3>\n

A variety of advanced security tools including Next-Generation Firewalls, threat intelligence research, systems and data exchanges can help prevent data exfiltration and malware command and control (C&C) communications via DNS.\u00a0 These tools enable a rapid investigation to establish context and prioritize threats, centrally aggregate curated internal and external threat intelligence, validate threat data and distribute it to the security ecosystem for remediation.<\/p>\n

Your Score ( )<\/p>\n

So, how did you do?\u00a0 Surprised?\u00a0 Not surprised?\u00a0 Did you score a 100?\u00a0 Here\u2019s a guide to see where you\u2019re at:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Your Total Score ( )<\/p>\n

80-100\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Awesome<\/p>\n

60-79\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pretty good<\/p>\n

40-59\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Getting there<\/p>\n

20-39\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Yikes<\/p>\n

0-19\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Call Infoblox at 1.866.463.6256 (or visit\u00a0www.infoblox.com<\/a>)<\/p>\n

What\u2019s Next?<\/h2>\n

Drilling a bit deeper, where do you excel?\u00a0 What are your most critical priorities?\u00a0 What do you think your team would say?\u00a0 Why not test them and discuss it in a team meeting?\u00a0 Even if you did score 100, you may not be out of the woods.\u00a0 Even companies with the best-protected networks are susceptible to a cybersecurity attack.\u00a0 Comprehensive network visibility enables you to recognize strengths and weaknesses, be ready and have plans in place to keep your organization\u2019s infrastructure available and running at peak performance.\u00a0 If you\u2019re less than peak, it\u2019s likely someone has already found you.\u00a0 Don\u2019t wait.\u00a0 Take action.\u00a0 Close the gaps.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be glad you did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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