NSA advises companies to avoid third party DNS resolvers

Bleeping Computer

he US National Security Agency (NSA) says that companies should avoid using third party DNS resolvers to block threat actors’ DNS traffic eavesdropping and manipulation attempts and to block access to internal network information.

NSA’s recommendation was made in a new advisory on the benefits (and risks) of using DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in enterprise environments, an encrypted domain name system (DNS) protocol that blocks unauthorized access to the DNS traffic between clients and DNS resolvers.

NSA recommends that an enterprise network’s DNS traffic, encrypted or not, be sent only to the designated enterprise DNS resolver, the US intelligence agency said.

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