Domain name system (DNS) protection

This is the third module in the “Operational network security” training programme.

Training is available to GN4.3, NRENs, NREN member organizations, system admin, network operators.

The Domain Name System (DNS) is one of the oldest protocols of the internet. It has proven to be capable to scale with the tremendous growth of the internet and also to remain adaptable to a variety of new applications, several of them relevant to the security of today's networks. Being a protocol from days when the internet was much smaller and thought to be safe, it has to cope with its own inherent security problems. The course will start with an introduction to DNS which will outline the basic security problems surrounding its operation. The following modules will deal with using the domain name system for network defence, like blackholing malicious domains and logging queries to infer intruder activity on the own network. The later modules will address the inherent security problems of DNS, starting with integrity protection through DNSSec and concluding the course with a module on privacy protection through DNS over TLS (DoT) and DNS over HTTP (DoH).

Please note that there is one registration - once registered you are welcome to attend all or selected sessions.

Also please note that we shall send you a calendar invitation with the Zoom link closer to the date of the session.

If you have registered less than an hour before the start of a session please email glad@geant.org to let us know and we shall forward you joining instructions.

We shall notify all the participants how to access recorded sessions once recordings become available.

For any queries please get in touch with glad@geant.org

We look forward to seeing you (virtually) soon.