The amount of cybercrime worldwide keeps increasing. An average malware attack costs organizations around $ 2750*, this is a year-on-year increase of 11%. Phishing- and ransomware attacks are rising. In these cases, malware is used to steal user data.

* Accenture Security Report 2019

But there is also good news: since more than 91% of all malware uses DNS connections for cyberattacks, phishing, and user data theft, if you secure those connections, you eliminate the majority of security issues.

Should you fail to secure those connections, it could lead to serious damage due to expensive downtime or even worse: considerable data leaks.

Whether or not you invest in reliable cyberecurity, should not be a question. It should be a given. Since most cyberthreats are hidden in or behind legitimate documents, e-mails, applications, or websites, the safety of your company network is completely lost without effective IT security.

Chances are you put the security of your network completely into the hands of a firewall and traditional anti-malware software. That’s a start, but these traditional vendors lack at least two crucial features:

• Traditional anti-malware does not pro-actively block newly registered domains, even though more than 22% of all these domains are used for cybercrime.
• Regular anti-malware relies on its own information channels and doesn’t automatically capture local information on malicious domains.

Secutec Secure DNS has those two concerns covered, and more.

Since nearly one-fourth of newly registered domains are exclusively set up for cybercrime, Secutec Secure DNS focuses, amongst others, on clearing those recent domains. We block them automatically for 24 hours, during which we analyze them properly and inform you whether a domain is malicious or not.

Next to that, we secure DNS connections by forwarding connection requests to our own Secure DNS server first, before giving them the green light. Let’s quickly show you how this works:

A Domain Name Server (DNS) ties the URL (the hostname in that URL) your users enter in their web browser, to the IP-address of that requested website. The DNS request is handled and checked by our Secure DNS server before the connection to the requested URL is done. By blocking corrupt connections on this level, we prevent web traffic to malicious websites.