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DON'T TAKE YOUR DNS SERVICE FOR GRANTED!
- enhance your cyber security awareness with our DNS monitoring service!
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"Many organisations tend to take much of their DNS infrastructure for granted. For example, many of them neither keep logs of their DNS traffic, nor do they monitor changes made to their domain records."
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Trusting the domain content is key! Our monitoring service validate that your domain content remain as intended.
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The DNS is a business critical infrastructure service. Without an available DNS service the Internet will simply stop working.
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With DNSmonitor keeping a close eye on your name servers you drastically reduce the risk of being caught off guard.
Availability
Unresponsive DNS servers will impact your sites availability and can cause loss of revenue.
Integrity
Ensure content correctness to make sure that every connection is routed to the intended target.
Performance
Nobody likes slow connections. Make sure your DNS servers aren't causing them.
Security
Configuration errors can leak information that put your entire organisation at risk.
DNS monitor can help
We provide our subscribers with continuous monitoring of the integrity and availability of their DNS servers and resource records.
Subscription types
FREE
The Free subscription is limited to one domain per account and is run at an hourly interval.
The free account features the Integrity and Availability checks displayed as two entities in the dashboard.
A Free subscription can easily be upgraded to either a Basic or a Premium subscription.
BASIC
The Basic subscription features everything the Free subscription offers but is run at 5 minute intervals.
You can configure host resource records to monitor and add additional monitoring locations.
The Basic subscription can seamlessly be upgraded to a Premium subscription without any loss of data.
PREMIUM
This is our flagship subscription. All Basic features are includes as well as detailed results and descriptions of every single check. All future added functionality and features will automatically be included in the Premium subscription without any additional cost.
A premium subscription can be downgraded to Basic or Free, but not without losing data.
DNS threats and exposure
The DNS was introduced in 1984 to provide Internet-wide translation of computer names into IP addresses to allow the continuous growth of the Internet. Due to its exposed and central role the DNS is constantly targeted by hackers.
Common attacks against the DNS aim to manipulate DNS data in order to redirect traffic through hacker controlled infrastructure. Usually referred to as man-in-the-middle attacks, they allow the hacker to eavesdrop and record session traffic usually without detection. Once a hacker gains control and successfully can manipulate the DNS data his options are virtually unlimited.
Attacks on the DNS infrastructure happens on a daily basis but the hijacking attacks exposed in early 2019 were of a much larger scale and with an unprecedented success rate. These attacks went unnoticed for two full years before being detected and exposed. This is undeniable evidence of the skill level the hackers of today possess. Read more about the attacks in our article DNS Hijacking campaign revisited.
The sheer magnitude of these attacks, their success rate and the implications that followed compelled the American agency DHS CISA to issue its first ever Emergency Directive (ED 19-01) requiring all US agencies to complete four mitigating actions within ten business days! The first item on that list was to audit and validate every DNS resource record on every authoritative name server!
No matter how many and how effective you think your security countermeasures are, continuous validation of your DNS resource records is invaluable and probably the only way to find out if your DNS infrastructure is being hijacked.
14 day trial period
Try out our service during a 14 day trial period. This article will shed some light what happens during and after the trial.
FREE subscription
Introducing our FREE of charge subscription.
Limitations? Yes, but still a very good service!
PREMIUM subscription
With the addition of the BASIC subscription type we have rebranded our original only subscription type to PREMIUM. No changes have been made to the original subscription but the name.
BASIC subscription
Without compromising with our core services, Integrity and Availability, but with a little less details our new BASIC subscription is a lightweight alternative to the comprehensive PREMIUM subscription.
The BASIC subscription is a complement to be used for your less important domains or as an entry-level subscription.
DNS Hijacking campaign revisited
The exposure of the 2019 DNS Hijacking Campaign was one of the most terrifying security news in recent years. The implications of these attacks are potentially far worse than any cyber attack known so far.
Read-only user access (Operators only)
Operator customers can now configure read-only user accounts to allow their clients access to the monitor dashboard.
Hostname integrity checks
The ability to monitor DNS resource records to detect unauthorised changes is paramount.
This new feature provide the ability to detect possible and ongoing DNS hijacking as well as unintentional mistakes.
DNS Hijacking Campaign
In late January 2019 the DHS CISA issued its first ever Emergency Directive (ED 2019-01) concerning attacks targeting DNS servers and their content in a globally widespread DNS Infrastructure Hijacking campaign.