An extension of the BloxOne Cloud, BloxOne Threat Defense provides visibility into infected and compromised off-premise devices, roaming users, remote sites, and branch offices. You can subscribe to BloxOne Threat Defense and use its functionality to mitigate and control malware as well as provide unprecedented insight into your network security posture and enable timely action. If your mission-critical DNS infrastructure is inadequately protected by traditional security solutions, it can become a vulnerable component of your network and can be used as an attack surface. A compromise in DNS services can result in catastrophic failures in the network and system. By offering the scalable, integrated, enterprise-grade protection for your DNS infrastructure, Infoblox sets a new standard in today’s cyber environment.
The following are the main features of BloxOne Threat Defense:
- Unified policy management, reporting, and threat analytics across the entire spectrum
- The Infoblox threat lookup tool and predefined reports and dashboards that show threats on your network
- A capability for configuring DNS forwarding proxies to forward recursive DNS requests to BloxOne Cloud
- The use of the Infoblox Cloud Services Portal to view your subscriptions and threat intelligence feeds and to manage your network scope and roaming end-users
- Automated, high-quality threat intelligence feeds and unique behavioral analytics
- Automatic prevention of DNS-based data exfiltration and communications between your devices and malicious sites, C&Cs, and botnets
Being a subscriber of BloxOne Threat Defense enables you to do the following:
- Mitigate and control malware, take timely action, and gain unprecedented insight into your network’s security posture.
- Reduce IT overhead when DNS security is consumed as a service — there is no infrastructure to manage in remote or branch locations.
- Reduce upfront costs and be assured that costs are predictable thereafter.
- Deploy faster, upgrade seamlessly — there is nothing to install, update, or maintain.
- Pay as you go, and scale as you grow.
- Leverage well-supported, secure, reliable, and highly available platforms.
- Implement changes easily, and improve your company’s security posture immediately.
- Extend Infoblox’s on-premise DNS security to roaming and remote users.
- Enjoy high feature velocity and continuous innovation by leveraging container-based architecture.
- Easily try new capabilities before deploying them broadly.
The following is a high-level overview of the BloxOne Threat Defense solution:
Diagram: BloxOne Threat Defense combines policy management, threat intelligence, DNS security, reporting, and data connectivity providing a comprehensive network security solution to protect against network-based threats.
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