(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Eliminating many barriers to secure Domain Name System deployments, DNS solutions provider Nominum (www.nominum.com) has unveiled its “DNSSEC Made Easy” solutions, which completely integrate functions needed to deploy DNS Security Extensions at any scale without costly proprietary appliances.
According to its Wednesday announcement, Nominum’s new features simplify and automate DNSSEC deployment, which eliminates the operational overhead and errors that could cause Internet sites to disappear. These new features strengthen Nominum’s unique layered defenses embedded in the Vantio caching DNS servers that protect more than 170 million broadband households.
“One of the grand challenges the Internet faces is: How do we make security scale? With over 61 percent of compromises being traced to authentication flaws, we clearly have a big problem,” said Dan Kaminsky, the security researcher who identified a key DNS security flaw in 2008. “DNSSEC is the big solution that we need to fix authentication…. I am happy to see Nominum adding comprehensive DNSSEC support to their DNS server platforms — and even happier to see DNSSEC almost entirely automated within it.”
Nominum has integrated and automated many new complex functions to publish and update DNS data into existing DNS servers. DNSSEC processes that previously took additional equipment such as external “signing” appliances are now Nominum software features running on commodity server hardware, which make complex, multi-step operations able to be executed with a few keystrokes.
Nominum also offers hosted services through SKYETM for service providers and enterprises that do not want the complexity of DNS and DNSSEC at all, allowing them to incorporate Nominum’s leading technology in a highly reliable cloud based model. They provide best DNS security with layered defenses and DNSSEC managed by experts, with zero operational burden.
“Deploying DNSSEC is a major undertaking that is going to take many years, with growing pains along the way.” said Paul Mockapetris, Chief Scientist at Nominum and inventor of the DNS. “There is a pressing need to make it easier for brand owners to protect their domains and provide the best protections to users for unsigned domains during and after this migration.”
