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November 11, 2025

Keep the Grinch Out: Holiday Retail Cyber Threat Risk

DNS security is a frontline defense against cyber threats that target online retailers during the holiday shopping rush.

November 4, 2025

What Is Port 53 and Its DDoS Attack Risk?

Learn how to protect your organization from DNS port 53 DDoS attacks with actionable strategies, including query limits, traffic filtering, and redundant networks. Keep your DNS fast, reliable, and secure under any threat.

October 22, 2025

DNS Logs: From Raw Data to Actionable Insights

Learn DNS best practices for turning raw DNS logs into actionable threat intelligence. Discover how to enhance visibility, reduce noise, and build a resilient DNS infrastructure that supports security and compliance.

October 20, 2025

5 Best Practices for Using BIND9 for TLD DNS

While BIND9 offers a wide array of features and support, organizations can face challenges trying to configure and maintain their TLD servers. TLD operators can follow these best practices to optimize their deployments.

October 14, 2025

Service Providers Are Prime Targets for DDoS Attacks

Service providers are prime targets for DDoS attacks, facing unique risks and reputational challenges. Learn why attackers focus on providers, the impact of these attacks, and strategies for effective mitigation.

October 14, 2025

Why DDoS Mitigation Is Particularly Challenging for Service Providers

DDoS mitigation is uniquely difficult for service providers due to diverse traffic patterns, resource constraints, and multi-vector attacks. Learn why these challenges exist and how to overcome them.

October 7, 2025

Overcoming DNSSEC Challenges: A Guide for TLDs

Organizations face significant challenges when implementing DNSSEC. With automation, they can overcome these challenges and gain the security and business continuity benefits that DNSSEC provides.

October 6, 2025

CDN Routing for a Multi-CDN Architecture

In a multi-CDN architecture each CDN has its own routing strategy so CDN routing is critical for optimizing performance.

October 1, 2025

Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs): What They Are and How They Improve Security

A certificate signing request (CSR) is part of the SSL/TLS certificate process and contains information that the Certificate Authority needs, including common name, country, and organization.

September 24, 2025

Understanding the Value of Public Key Cryptography for Digital Communications

Public key cryptography, also called asymmetric cryptography, uses a public key and private key for encrypting communications transmitted across the internet.

September 19, 2025

What Is a Tsunami Attack?

Learn what a tsunami attack is, how it targets applications with massive traffic, and strategies to mitigate these high-volume DDoS threats.

September 18, 2025

What is SSL?

Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is an encryption security protocol that improves privacy, authentication, and integrity for data communications sent over the internet. It evolved into Transport Layer Security (TLS).

September 11, 2025

gTLD vs TLD: What They Are and Why They Matter

Top-level domains are the last part of an organization's website and help businesses communicate information about their products and improve brand recall.

September 9, 2025

Best Practices for Application Layer Security

Application layer security protects applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) by adding protection at the point where users communicate and access services.

September 2, 2025

Why a Human-Staffed SOC Is Critical to Effective DDoS Mitigation

DDoS attacks are growing more frequent, complex, and disruptive. Security providers now turn to AI to detect and mitigate these evolving threats

August 27, 2025

How Brands Can Prepare for the New gTLD Program

The New Generic Top Level-Domains (gTLD) program expands the Internet's Domain Name System by introducing new top-level domains.

August 27, 2025

Why Geo-Blocking DDoS Attacks Are Losing Their Edge

Recent botnet campaigns and router exploits are rendering geo-blocking increasingly ineffective against DDoS attacks. Cybercriminals are finding new ways to bypass geographic restrictions, using compromised devices worldwide to launch coordinated attacks. Learn why traditional geographic filtering is losing its edge and what this means for modern cybersecurity strategies.

August 26, 2025

UltraDDoS Protect Successfully Mitigates 3.7 Tbps and 2.4 Tbps Internet Tsunami DDoS Attacks for DigiCert

On Tuesday, July 29th, DigiCert’s UltraDDoS Protect service successfully mitigated an internet tsunami, a massive DDoS attack that reached 2.4 Terabits per second (Tbps) of bandwidth and 553 Million packets per second (Mpps) of impact.

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Weekly Updates on the Cyber Threat Landscape

Cybersecurity Insights That Are Ahead of the Curve

Weekly Updates on the Cyber Threat Landscape

Cybersecurity Insights That Are Ahead of the Curve

Weekly Updates on the Cyber Threat Landscape

Cybersecurity Insights That Are Ahead of the Curve