Vincent Arnold

If you missed the first part in this article series please read Securing DNS for Windows (Part 1).

In the last article I reviewed some basic security concepts of DNS, including some basics of DNS itself. Some of the security concepts included making DNS Active Directory integrated and establishing a more secure DNS environment with communication with DHCP. These are some easy and powerful configurations to make for your DNS environment. Don’t stop there though! You are just touching the surface as regards to securing your DNS environment. In this installment of securing DNS, we will go deeper into DNS and how the DNS database is secured, especially with communication with other DNS servers. DNS servers must communicate to update the database on other DNS servers. This communication can be an ideal situation for an attacker to pounce on any vulnerability that is exposed. If you take the correct precautions and establish secure DNS configurations, your exposure will be reduced.

Full article and source: WindowSecurity.com

This entry was posted on Friday, July 6th, 2007 at 5:43 am and is filed under Information Security.