DNS Protection: Principal Considerations for Enterprise and Service Providers

This IDC Market Note aims to dispel confusion about DNS security through an overview of DNS protection strategies and solutions available for enterprises and service providers. DNS is of critical importance for any organization looking to deliver an optimal online user experience, to the public, for internal users, or both. Unsurprisingly, threat actors target DNS as a means to organizations without triggering traditional network defenses. Yet adoption of dedicated DNS protection lags compared with other, more well-known defenses.