Take control of your DNS security: Introducing Google Cloud DNS Armor
15Learn how DNS Armor, a cloud-native Advanced DNS Threat Detection service, can protect your cloud workloads from malicious DNS queries. Join Manisha Gupta, Group Manager, Google Cloud Networking, for an in-depth overview.
Challenge:
In today's complex cloud environment, DNS is often an overlooked yet critical attack vector. Cybercriminals actively exploit vulnerabilities in the Domain Name System, using tactics like DNS tunneling for covert data exfiltration, malware distribution, and command and control (C2) communication. Traditional security tools frequently miss these threats, allowing attackers to sneak past firewalls and compromise your cloud workloads. With 92% of malware leveraging DNS for C2 and 88% of organizations having suffered DNS attacks, a critical gap in security visibility exists.
Solution:
Introducing Google Cloud DNS Armor, a cloud-native DNS security service developed in partnership with Infoblox, an industry leader in threat intelligence. DNS Armor provides preemptive threat detection for internet-bound DNS queries from your Google Cloud workloads. It's a foundational security layer that identifies threats at the earliest point—the DNS query—covering:
✅ Feed-Based Threat Detection: For known malicious and high-risk domains.
✅ ML-Based (Algorithmic) Threat Detection: Including sophisticated DNS tunneling detection, malware distribution, command & control (C2) identification, Domain Generation Algorithm (DGA) detection, and real-time Zero-Day DNS flagging.
DNS Armor delivers unparalleled threat intelligence, powered by Infoblox's analysis of over 70 billion DNS queries daily, detecting threats often before they are weaponized.
Results:
With DNS Armor, you can dramatically improve your security posture with preemptive threat detection, gaining visibility into threats before a malicious connection is established. Simplify your cloud security operations with a fully managed, agentless service that requires no VM management. Reduce alert fatigue with high-quality findings and an extremely low false positive rate (0.0002%). Gain unified visibility through deep integration with Cloud Logging, feeding into Security Command Center (SCC) and Google SecOps for seamless analysis and automated response. DNS Armor stops both known and likely threats earlier without compromising network performance, enhancing your overall network security posture.
Ready to enhance your cloud's defense? DNS Armor is available now in public preview.
Explore its threat detection capabilities and enable it today:https://cloud.google.com/dns/docs/threat-detection..
Timestamps:
0:05 Introduction to DNS Armor
0:16 The cyber attack kill chain & DNS vulnerabilities
1:18 Why DNS is an overlooked attack vector
2:05 Alarming statistics on DNS-based attacks
2:39 How DNS Armor proactively detects threats
3:11 The power of Infoblox threat intelligence
4:25 Seamless integration & how DNS Armorworks
5:20 The importance of foundational DNS security
5:54 Learn more about DNS Armor