DNS IS NOT BORING! USING DNS TO EXPOSE AND THWART ATTACKS

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While almost every major organization in the world is being continuously attacked over the Internet from a wide variety of actors, tools, and methods, the vast majority of them are sitting on a gold mine of data that could expose and thwart those attacks and don’t even know it. That data is in the very mundane task of resolving names to network addresses otherwise known as Domain Name Service (DNS). This session will explore how to dig data out of your organization’s DNS queries and responses, find activities like data exfiltration using DNS tunnels, malware activities, and other attacks leveraging the DNS, and provide some thoughts on how to use the organization’s DNS infrastructure itself to protect from these threats.