In 2008, OMB required that all government agencies implement DNSSEC, the Domain Name System security extensions and for good reason. DNSSEC protocols - more than a decade in the making - have been tested, re-tested, studied and documented. They work. They do the job. They make DNS secure. But despite being useful and even mandated, DNSSEC isn’t being used as much as it should. The problem is that DNSSEC seems to be very complicated and the documentation sometimes feels like it should be part of the Tax Code. In this session, our experts will take the fear out DNSSEC – and you won’t even need novocain.
Learning Objectives:
• The motivation for DNSSEC and its history
• Fundamental concepts, incliding describing the new security-related information added to DNS to support DNSSEC (such as cryptographic keys and digital signatures)
• How DNSSEC validates DNS data to ensure its authenticity and integrity
• New technologies that DNSSEC will enable