Akamai Enhanced DNS with DNSSec Support
DNS Infrastructure - An Easy Target For Attackers
Any website or web enabled application relies on DNS, without it, the World Wide Web wouldn't function. But still this critical infrastructure component is often overlooked as the rest of the environment is scaled without it. As a result, the DNS layer can fail under load and in recent times has become a preferred target for malicious attacks. Furthermore, name servers widely run on BIND software which is known to suffer from several security vulnerabilities exposing DNS infrastructure to attacks.
Akamai Enhanced DNS
Akamai Enhanced DNS is an authoritative secondary Domain Name Service that provides scalable, available, and secure DNS services to keep your Web sites available. The service is distributed across Akamai’s global platform to improve reliability and performance, while easily integrating with your existing DNS administration procedures.
Enhanced DNS leverages a number of technologies, including IP Anycast, secured zone transfers and non-BIND-based DNS to provide a highly secure and fault-tolerant solution. The service enhances global performance by improving DNS resolutions. Each advertised name server’s IP address is backed with multiple physical machines spread worldwide, so users are directed transparently to the closest name server, resulting in enhanced user experience.
Because Akamai provides secondary hosting, you can continue to administer zone data on your primary name servers. You can choose to retain your existing business processes for change management of zone data while leveraging the Akamai Platform to deliver DNS resolutions to end users.
Enhanced security using DNSSec
DNSSec makes DNS more secure and establishes integrity of DNS data to protect against cache poisoning, data forgery, and other DNS attacks. DNSSEC support is now available for Enhanced DNS as a fully managed service.
Benefits of Enhanced DNS
Any website or web enabled application relies on DNS, without it, the World Wide Web wouldn't function. But still this critical infrastructure component is often overlooked as the rest of the environment is scaled without it. As a result, the DNS layer can fail under load and in recent times has become a preferred target for malicious attacks. Furthermore, name servers widely run on BIND software which is known to suffer from several security vulnerabilities exposing DNS infrastructure to attacks.
Akamai Enhanced DNS
Akamai Enhanced DNS is an authoritative secondary Domain Name Service that provides scalable, available, and secure DNS services to keep your Web sites available. The service is distributed across Akamai’s global platform to improve reliability and performance, while easily integrating with your existing DNS administration procedures.
Enhanced DNS leverages a number of technologies, including IP Anycast, secured zone transfers and non-BIND-based DNS to provide a highly secure and fault-tolerant solution. The service enhances global performance by improving DNS resolutions. Each advertised name server’s IP address is backed with multiple physical machines spread worldwide, so users are directed transparently to the closest name server, resulting in enhanced user experience.
Because Akamai provides secondary hosting, you can continue to administer zone data on your primary name servers. You can choose to retain your existing business processes for change management of zone data while leveraging the Akamai Platform to deliver DNS resolutions to end users.
Enhanced security using DNSSec
DNSSec makes DNS more secure and establishes integrity of DNS data to protect against cache poisoning, data forgery, and other DNS attacks. DNSSEC support is now available for Enhanced DNS as a fully managed service.
Benefits of Enhanced DNS
- Provides robust, reliable, and scalable secondary DNS service for 24X7 availability of your Web sites against DNS attacks
- Enhanced performance through faster DNS resolution
- No need to change existing business processes
- Leverages Akamai's significant in-house expertise in developing, administering, managing, and monitoring name servers, in order to ensure the integrity of DNS infrastructure.
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