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Nominum Leapfrogs Industry Response to DNS Vulnerability with New Security Package

Posted on Friday, September 05, 2008 12:16:30 PM       Sign Up to receive Daily News Alerts in your E-mail Inbox                            Digg This Article   Add to Delicious

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    New Release Provides Intelligent, Layered Approach with Built-In "Defense in Depth" Against DNS Cache Poisoning

    August 29, 2008 - Nominum, the leading provider of network naming and addressing technologies, today announced the availability of a comprehensive new security release for its Vantio caching DNS server platform. The latest Vantio software release provides multi-layer intelligent defenses that defeat DNS cache poisoning and other attacks, including the recently publicized Kaminsky vulnerability. By offering built-in defense-in-depth, the Nominum solution far surpasses the recently released industry standard UDP Source Port Randomization (UDP SPR). In fact, Vantio''s new defenses negate the brute force advantage attackers gained with the latest DNS cache poisoning vulnerability.

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