Advantages of DNS RPZ | How It Works

Advantages of RPZ: Basics & Common Configurations

Content Categorization, Cybersecurity, DNS Filtering, Malicious Detection, Network Security, Technology & Insights, URL Categorization Database, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental Controls

Since the release of BIND 9 in 2010, RPZ has proven a powerful technology for security and network management—allowing organizations to implement an additional DNS configuration layer. In fact, BIND is the most widely used Domain Name System software on the internet—making RPZ configuration options like integrating commercial feeds, blocklists, and URL databases like zveloDB™ all the more attractive. So let’s take a moment to revisit the advantages of RPZ.

Content as the New Clickbait: The Battle against News & Politics

Politics and News: The Growing Trend of Content as the New Clickbait

Ad Tech & Brand Safety, Content Categorization, Internet Safety & Privacy

Over the past decade, the use of “clickbait” ads has become the norm in order to entice viewers to click on the ad and drive traffic to a publisher. Web surfers have grown accustomed to seeing the same types of clickbait ads and sponsored stories like the ones shown below with sensational headlines about curing cancer, stopping aging, improving your sex life and more.

Base Domain vs. Full Path URL. What's the Difference?

Base Domain URL vs. Full Path URL. What’s the Difference?

Content Categorization, Contextual Targeting, Cybersecurity, Network Security, URL Database, Web Filtering & Parental Controls

For the average web surfer, the URL bar provides a magical portal to the interwebz where anything that can be thought of can be entered—revealing the treasures of the internet at the stroke of ‘enter’. For the rest of us, we know it gets much more complicated than that as we slip down the rabbit hole and into OSI, DNS, TLS, HTTPS, subdomains…

IoT Cybersecurity Reaches Tipping Point

IoT Cybersecurity Reaching Tipping Point

Cybersecurity, Internet Safety & Privacy, IoT Security Technology, Malicious Detection

In an article on ITPro, Jeff Finn writes about how the state of IoT cybersecurity is reaching a tipping point, forcing IoT device manufacturers to work partners that excel at networking. “The writing on the wall for IoT device manufacturers is to get serious about security and develop fruitful channel partnerships with network technology providers.