High-profile ransomware attacks have dominated headlines in recent months, but cybersecurity experts agree ransomware isn’t the only major threat capable of wreaking widespread (and costly) havoc.

Infoblox's Craig Sanderson on Integrating DNS Protection Into Compliance Frameworks

In this interview, Cricket Liu, executive vice president and Chief Evangelist of Infoblox, explains how artificial intelligence and automation are transforming cybersecurity and network management in hybrid and multicloud environments, with protective DNS as a key piece of defense.

What good are cybersecurity standards if there’s no way of telling whether or not those standards have been met? It’s a question that’s plagued regulators on both sides of the Atlantic for decades, and with almost half (43%) of UK businesses reporting a cybersecurity incident in the past 12 months, those standards matter more than ever.

Sometimes the internet feels like the old joke about “you can’t get there from here.” DNS errors and DNS failures are especially frustrating. “DNS server isn’t responding,” “DNS lookup failed,” “NXDOMAIN” and “DNS resolution timeout” are just some of the possible ways your browser or internet-enabled device tells you there is a DNS failure.

Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.