WEBINAR
Securing DNS with NIST Guidelines: Best Practices and Latest Standards
Wednesday, May 7
8 am PDT | 11 am EDT | 4 pm BST
Join our webinar to explore NIST’s updated DNS guidelines, including Encrypted DNS and Protective DNS, for enhanced security.
Join this webinar to learn about NIST’s newly updated guidelines on DNS. This new version of the guidelines introduces two important new features of the Domain Name System (DNS), Encrypted DNS and Protective DNS, and refreshes many other areas. The guidelines apply to organizations including both government agencies and businesses.
Originally published in 2006, the NIST guidelines have provided legions of administrators and implementers with invaluable recommendations and best practices. But in the almost 20 years since the latest version of the guidelines, the DNS community has introduced significant new functionality, particularly Encrypted DNS and Protective DNS.
Key updates in the revised version include:
- Best practices for deploying Encrypted DNS to secure communications between stub resolvers (DNS clients) and recursive DNS servers.
- Best practices for deploying Protective DNS to help secure internetworked devices from a wide variety of threats, including phishing, malware, and more.
- Best practices for securely configuring DNS software like BIND and NSD.
- Guidelines for managing “split-zone” configurations, which involve separating DNS control across multiple servers or environments.
These updates ensure that DNS is protected against security threats by using current, recommended security standards.
Meet the Presenters
Cricket Liu
Chief Evangelist, Infoblox
Cricket is one of the world’s leading experts on the Domain Name System (DNS) and serves as the liaison between Infoblox and the DNS community. Before joining Infoblox, he founded an Internet consulting and training company, Acme Byte & Wire, after running the hp.com domain at Hewlett-Packard. Cricket is a prolific speaker and author, having written a number of books including “DNS and BIND,” one of the most widely used references in the field, now in its fifth edition.
Ross Gibson
Principal Global SME, Infoblox
Ross Gibson, J.D. is currently a Principal Global SME for Infoblox, Inc., where he focuses on DNS architecture, DNS global server load balancing (GSLB), and DNS security. Ross is a co-author of The Hidden Potential of DNS in Security, which provides security professionals a view into the threats that can exploit DNS as well as the opportunities that DNS provides for furthering their security mission. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the networking industry along with his legal training and experience to his current role. He holds a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia, and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Richmond School of Law.