An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
The Domain Name Service (DNS) is surprisingly fragile, especially considering that it serves as the backbone of the Internet. Hackers realize that targeting DNS is one of the easiest ways to take down large swaths of the Web, making it a prime target of attacks.
Dyn is a managed DNS provider who entered the public consciousness when it became the victim of a denial of service attack in October 2016. Yet, even though that attack briefly took several brands’ Web sites down, many of Dyn’s customers credit it for mitigating the damage.
Managing DNS, in fact, is central to Dyn’s digital resilience strategy. The company works hand-in-hand with content delivery networks (CDNs) to help customers architect for resilience and harden the edge – the numerous, globally distributed servers that make up any brands’ digital delivery infrastructure.
Oracle recently announced it is acquiring Dyn, and the deal is likely to close in early 2017.
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