These days, BYOD is the norm. Mobile devices from inside and outside
your network are continuously crossing mixed physical and cloud
infrastructure whose security may not always be under your control. As a
result, your network is being constantly exposed to malware threats.
And DNS is their main pathway. More than 90 percent of malware uses DNS
to communicate with command and control servers, steal data, or redirect
traffic to malicious sites. Existing security controls and perimeter
defenses are not designed to prevent, isolate, and remediate DNS-based
malware threats.
There I was shooting the breeze with an old mate. The conversation turned to why Madge Networks which I wrote about here went titsup. My analysis is that Madge Networks had a solution and decided to go out and find a problem. They deferred to more incorrect strategic technology choices. The truth of the matter is that when something goes titsup, its not because of one reason only, but a myriad of them all contributing to the negative consequence. There are the immediate or visual ones, which are underpinned by intermediate ones and finally after digging right down, there are the root causes. There is never a singular root cause for anything but I'll present my opinion and encourage everyone else to chip in. All of them together are more likely the reason the company went titsup. As far as technology brainfarts go there is no better example than Kodak . They invented the digital camera that killed them. However, they were so focused on milking people in their leg
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