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Cost? Here’s why many companies not using threat intelligence portals
\nA new survey conducted by Osterman Research on behalf of DomainTools found that only 50 percent of companies with an average of 20,000 employees, where the majority had experienced a data breach over the past 12 months, use a threat intelligence portal.
\nDespite the 66 percent year-over-year increase in cyber attacks since 2009, nearly 50 percent of respondents do not currently have a threat intelligence solution, said the report.
\nFor many, cost is the main blocking issue with 60 percent of organisations concerned about the expense of implementing a threat intelligence platform to mitigate a “potential” breach before it happens.
\nA strong majority of identified attacks continue to come from either email or website navigation, making DNS (in the form of email or web domains and IP addresses) a key component for attack execution.
\nOnly 1 percent of organisations would not use a threat intelligence solution if it were made available to them, the report stated.
\nIf given a modest budget increase, only 21 percent said they would invest in staffing, while 70 percent would choose either infrastructure, SIEM or threat intelligence.
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Verisign opens up its DNS
\nVerisign is throwing its hat into the \u201cfree DNS\u201d ring, promising not to retain information about recursive requests to its just-launched service.
\nVerisign Public DNS is at 64.6.64.6 \/ 64.6.65.6, alas nowhere near as easy for people to remember as Google’s 8.8.8.8 \/ 8.8.4.4.
\nIn the blog post launching the service, the director of product management for the service Michael Kaczmarek says most people don’t understand that their recursive DNS requests can be, and routinely are, harvested, stored, mined and \u201csold to the highest bidder\u201d.
\nFor the more advanced users, there’s also IPv6 servers at 2620:74:1b::1:1 \/ 2620:74:1c::2:2.
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