INTERFACE Montana
July 30th, 2025

  Presented by Cricket Liu, Executive Vice President, Chief Evangelist • Infoblox

Over their 40-year history on the Internet, DNS servers have long been the targets of attacks: from cache poisoning to DDoS attacks. But in the last several years, we've begun turning DNS servers into security tools, helping us combat the scourges of malware, phishing, and more. This talk describes both the history of DNS and the technologies that allow us to turn DNS servers into effective security tools, Response Policy Zones, and Passive DNS.