Remote learning environments necessitated by the pandemic continue to bring increased risks for educational institutions, students and faculty. Your challenges include ensuring that schools and the technology supporting remote learning continue to be re-engineered to meet new requirements more securely and at a lower cost.

Public health services are at the forefront of embracing digital technology. Public health has accelerated the pace of technology adoption to address HIPAA compliance, cybersecurity, and the rapid growth of IoT-based medical devices, which has contributed to cybersecurity vulnerability. Finally, SDWAN deployment and expanded information sharing have also raised the imperative for better and more efficient security solutions.

Public sector priorities continue to drive requirements for technology-based initiatives that require modernization and transformation. State spending before 2020 showed annualized budget increases with common priorities including cybersecurity, cloud computing, addressing personnel and talent gap issues, leveraging data analytics and improving connectivity with 5G. Election security will also continue to receive substantial attention.

State and local governments have been hit hard by ransomware and other forms of cyberattack over the past two years, and this trend continues. The threats have also become more dangerous. In February of 2021, a city in the U.S. Southeast faced a targeted attack on its water supply. Cyberattackers allegedly attempted to poison the drinking water supply. They gained authentication credentials and were manipulating the system in an unsuccessful attempt to dump large quantities of lye into the water.

If you work in state or local government, you have faced unprecedented challenges since March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Many government agencies quickly reconfigured systems and policies to enable work from anywhere (WFA) environments for employees, a solution not without problems. Remote workers continue to seek access to enterprise resources from a variety of endpoints, both work and personal, as well as mobile devices. But many of the cybersecurity procedures used within enterprise facilities won’t work from remote locations without substantial changes, preparation and planning.

Cyberthreats are on the rise. Chances are, your security teams are struggling to keep up. They must contend with a flood of daily alerts from the dozens of security tools they rely on. These disparate tools create silos and require manual processes to correlate information.

Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense is a DNS-based security tool that covers security blind spots left behind by next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools, while protecting the enterprise network and those working remotely regardless of device or location. BloxOne finds anomalies earlier in the threat life cycle and empowers organizations to detect and remediate with higher efficacy using automation and security orchestration and response while requiring fewer people resources.

Infoblox BloxOne Threat Defense strengthens and optimizes your security posture from the foundation up. It maximizes brand protection by securing your existing networks as well as digital imperatives like SD-WAN, IoT and the cloud. It uses a hybrid architecture for pervasive, inside-out protection, powers security orchestration, automation and response (SOAR) solutions by providing rich network and threat context, optimizes the performance of the entire security ecosystem and reduces your total cost of enterprise threat defense.

BloxOne Threat Defense Essentials strengthens and optimizes your security posture from the foundation. It maximizes brand protection by securing your existing networks as well as digital imperatives like SD-WAN, IoT and the cloud. It protects customers from data exfiltration, provides scalable malware mitigation, delivers precise visibility for faster correlation of events and reduces burden on strained perimeter security devices.

With Infoblox Advanced DNS Protection (ADP), your business is always up and running, even under a DNS-based attack. Infoblox blocks the widest range of attacks, such as volumetric attacks, NXDOMAIN, exploits and DNS hijacking. Unlike approaches that rely on infrastructure overprovisioning or simple response-rate limiting, Advanced DNS Protection intelligently detects and mitigates DNS attacks while responding only to legitimate queries by using constantly updated threat intelligence, without the need to deploy security patches. With Infoblox, you can take network reliability to the next level by ensuring that your critical infrastructure—and your business—keep working at all times.

It has been stated in the press that customer data is more valuable in today’s economy than oil. If this is true, then protecting customer data must be a top priority for all businesses. This means all pathways to customer data must be secured, no matter where that data is stored. The domain name system (DNS) is a foundational network service that is critical to both connectivity and security, as it can provide a back door for data breaches. It should therefore not be overlooked as a first-level security control, especially in times of crisis and change, like the recent influx of home/remote workers.

Zero Trust architectures have become a compelling means for modern enterprise and government institutions to secure sensitive data in the face of digital transformation and the loss of the traditional network perimeter. The paper describes a Zero Trust architecture’s essential components, its core capabilities and some important use cases that support it. In addition, it explains the critical roles that Domain Name System (DNS) and foundational security can play in your deployment of Zero Trust architectures.