About Infoblox Threat Defense

An extension of Infoblox Platform, Infoblox Threat Defense provides visibility into infected and compromised off-premise devices, roaming users, remote sites, and branch offices. You can subscribe to Infoblox 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 Infoblox 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 Infoblox Platform.
• The use of the Infoblox Infoblox 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 Infoblox 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 Infoblox Threat Defense solution:

Diagram: Infoblox 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. 

For more information, see the following:

• Getting Started with Infoblox Threat Defense
• Deploying NIOS-X Servers for Infoblox Threat Defense