posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 4:18 AM
The majority of DNS infrastructures are vulnerable today. More and more customers are looking for a way, and allocating larger budgets, to protect and secure their DNS Infrastructures. Recently there have been several high profile attacks on the DNS systems. F5 and Infoblox together are uniquely positioned to solve these problems and secure the DNS infrastructures. Every organization should be thinking about the security and scalability of their DNS infrastructure.
The combination of F5’s and Infoblox’s appliances provide enterprise customers an opportunity to build authoritative DNS infrastructure without giving up either global server load balancing or DNSSEC — it’s a no compromise solution.”
– Cricket Liu, Infoblox VP of Architecture and author of O’Reilly book DNS and BIND
F5 and Infoblox have joined forces to deliver the market’s only fully integrated and complete DNSSEC solution including high-performance DNS and global server load balancing functions, all supporting signed DNSSEC data. This provides customers a scalable, manageable, and secure DNS infrastructure that is equipped to withstand DNS attacks. The solution is a combination of Infoblox’s purpose-built appliances that deliver highly reliable, manageable and secure DNS services with built-in, automated DNSSEC features, and F5® BIG-IP® Global Traffic Manager™ appliances optimized with hardware acceleration facilitating real-time signing of DNSSEC signature queries.
Together F5 and Infoblox provide a complete DNSSEC solution focused on:
- High Availability / Scalability
- Context-Aware
- Simplified DNS Management
- End-to-end DNSSEC
DNSSEC is still largely in its implementation stage for organizations outside the federal government, but the time is rapidly approaching when DNSSEC on top level domains will be complete.
Working methodically and carefully, and in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Commerce and ICANN, VeriSign anticipates that by the first quarter of 2011, DNSSEC implementation will be complete on the .edu, .net and .com Top Level Domains (TLDs). – CNN News
It’s time for organizations that have put off DNSSEC because of its complexity and the disruption caused by implementation to look into solutions and lay out an implementation strategy. A joint F5 and Infoblox solution can dramatically decrease the complexity and disruption implied by such implementations without negatively impacting existing global load balancing services that could interrupt disaster recovery and business continuity solutions.
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