Security News > 2020 > June > How DNS attacks threaten organizations

A report released Wednesday by network automation and security provider EfficientIP and research firm IDC discusses how DNS is prone to attack and what organizations can do to protect their DNS security.

Based on a survey of 900 technology professions across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, the "2020 Global DNS Threat Report" found that 79% of organizations were hit by DNS attacks in 2019, down slightly from 82% in 2018.

Among the side effects of DNS attacks, application downtime was the most pervasive-82% of the respondents hit by a DNS attack reported app downtime-whether in-house or via a cloud environment such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services.

The increased reliance on the cloud during the coronavirus lockdown likely made it a more inviting target for attackers, according to EfficientIP and IDC. Based on the survey, DNS attacks affected a range of industries in different ways.

Some 35% don't take advantage of their internal DNS traffic for filtering and only 12% collect DNS logs and correlate them through machine learning.

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