The rise of the mobile enterprise is fundamentally altering the way organisations conduct business. Businesses of all sizes, across industries such as financial services, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and government are all embracing enterprise mobility to reap the obvious benefits it brings.
However, it is not without its dangers. "The mobile world has placed your users outside the corporate network and the security of the company's firewall and other security solutions," says Kevin Wilson, general manager IT Services at Stefanutti Stocks Corporate Services.
Wilson will be presenting on 'Web content filtering using DNS in a distributed and mobile world' at the ITWeb Security Summit 2017, to be held from 15 to 19 May at Vodacom World in Midrand.
The mobile world is forcing enterprises to find ways to provide secure methods to enable anytime, anywhere access to content on the its servers, from a multitude of devices that lie outside its networks.
Wilson says domain name system (DNS) is a standard service that scales to large volumes and is easy to take advantage of to address distributed clients.
DNS can be used for content filtering, which can block adult sites and other undesirable content, and it requires no software to be installed on employee devices. It can also be used to block sites that house malware, as well as phishing pages, or other dangerous content. Other benefits include the blocking of known botnets, preventing the takeover of company machines, and can also be used to block advertising on Web sites.
According to Wilson, delegates will learn more about using DNS to bolster security efforts. "The take away from my talk, is that legacy security systems will not be up to the task of securing users when they roam, and they should start looking at avenues like DNS to supplement their current systems."
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