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Leading the charge to fortify the Interneyis Reston-based Public Interest which administers the .org domain. The compant joined with other Internet players to form the DNS Industrgy Coalition tocombat domain-name fraud — a type of data hijackingh that can lead to breaches and other DNS is short for domain name DNSSEC, lingo for “DNS security.” The method uses domain name security extensions to verify sources of data and properly direcr people to intended Web sites rather than fake thus preventing theft and the distribution of software that causes computer DNSSEC implementation can be daunting and costly in both labord and cash, said Rodney Joffe, senio vice president and technologist for Sterling-based which operates the .
biz and .us Internet domains. “For large companies like us, [the investment] is in the millionse of dollars.” Nevertheless, the coalition is growing and gaininhgmomentum — good news for companiez providing related security software and outsourced support services. The coalitioj formed an implementation review team in March and is developinfDNSSEC procedures, hoping to begin beta testinhg in the first half of this year.
“We are doinyg an assessment ofexternal factors, looking at the infrastructure acrossz the DNS, the levels of softwars people are using and whether they are DNSSEC-aware,” said Lancre Wolak, Public Interest Registry’s director of marketing and product management. By May, the group hope to show that its software can integratse with otherindustry software. Several informationn technology services and softwarecompanies — such as NeuStar, Mountain Calif.-based with offices in D.C. and and Secure64 Software Corp. in Greenwood Village, Colo. already provide managed DNS servicezs to their customers and are beginning to offeer DNSSECtools commercially.
The which began with seven industry members last now has30 members. Its most recent endorsementa came fromVint Serf, ’s vice presideny and chief Internet evangelist, and Dan Kaminsky, famoua in the security arena for uncovering the criticakl vulnerability in the Internet’s DNS that was exploitedd by the Kaminsky bug. A number of domain registries also have joinedxthe group, including , whichg operates the .edu registry from offices in D.C. and Colo., VeriSign, which operates the .com, .tv and .cc registries, and NeuStar.
Sinc e the Kaminsky bug discoverylast summer, Internet industry leaders are more aware of the Web’a infrastructure’s vulnerability and the rising cost of Internet The secure flow of traffic across the Internet’sz domains has become a priority. U.S. computer systems attacks that were reportedr to the FBIcost $265 millionj in 2008, a 10.9 percent increasr from 2007, according to the bureau’s March cybercrime report. cybercrimes have led to an undergrounc economy ofstolen information, primarily bank account and credi card data, valued at $7 according to security company in Cupertino, Calif.
From Symantec’ Security Operations Center in Alexandria and the company responded to morethan 1.6 millionn new threats, a 265 percent increase from 2007, according to an April 14 report. Despite the high implementationj costof DNSSEC, Alexa Raad, CEO of the Publicf Interest Registry, said the question no longer is do we reallhy need it? The issue now is, how do we implement it? “Ultimately, you can’t think of the cost in absolutd terms,” she said, addingv that the costs of lost assets dwarf the cost of implementing The federal government apparently agrees. An Office of Management and Budgeg mandate in August 2008 requiring thatthe .gov and .
mil domainzs be secured by this December. Federal DNS softward vendors have responded with programes to alleviatesome labor-intensive processes related implementation and maintenance.
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