It is vital for every business to understand how their domain names are being used and whether they are delivering a return on investment. Auditing DNS on a regular basis is now considered best practice.
Discover the importance of DNS and why choosing the right provider is critical for your organisation.
As the digital economy grows, organisations need to constantly re-evaluate their online presence to ensure they are capitalising on the opportunities and rewards that technology presents but also mitigating any risks or threats that exist, whether caused by design or mistake.
Secure Sockets Layer is a protocol that dates back almost as far as the domain name industry itself. Developed in 1994 by Netscape, one of the biggest web browsers in the early days of the Internet to provide authenticated, encrypted data connections between a host and its users.
The starting point for many clients is to understand how their domains are being used. Not all domain names are utilised in the same way. Some may be supporting critical internal applications such as email or VPNs, others may be being used for marketing campaigns across the globe or to support new product launches.
The threat posed by those intent on domain hijacking is unlikely to go away any time soon. It is vital that organisations ensure that their critical domain names, where possible, are protected by domain locks.
During these testing times, Com Laude offered a subset of global clients a free COVID-19 domain name search service to identify any abusive domain names involving keywords relating to the pandemic.
Homoglyphs, open a whole new world of abuse. These are characters from other scripts, which can look like Latin letters. Cyber-criminals use them to their advantage to impersonate brands and steal essential information from Internet users.
Discover a number of ways to add an extra layer of cyber security during a global pandemic.
How Neustar are using big data, machine learning and ambitious investment in security product development to keep out the bad guys and keep the good guys safe.