June 2012 Blog Posts

Call For Applications: OpenDNS Looking for Domain Taggers

That’s right, folks.  It’s that time again!  We’re looking for some new volunteers to join the crew and help out with the domain tagging community!

OpenDNS moderators are Internet security superheroes that make sure our Web…

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Field Reports: Why National Holdings Replaced SonicWALL with OpenDNS Enterprise

This week we’re very excited to share with you that one of our new customers is the leading independent advisor and broker services company National Holdings (NHLD). In this edition of Field Reports, we look at why they chose to…

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OpenDNS Enterprise: The cloud-based security service 90% of customers choose again.

Today we shared some compelling numbers that provide insight into the effectiveness and longevity of OpenDNS Enterprise. A staggering 90% of all customers (ever) have renewed their service contract upon its expiration, and of the…

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S4: San Francisco Summer Security Series

I’m excited to announce that OpenDNS is hosting two nights of presentations, demonstrations and networking over the summer in our new office in San Francisco. We’re calling it the San Francisco Summer Security Series, or…

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Introducing new Web filtering categories from OpenDNS

Today we announce several improvements to the Domain Tagging system, our content categorization engine, as well as two new categories that you can enable for your networks, effective immediately.

As with every new feature we…

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Field Reports: Why an Internet-focused company considers OpenDNS Enterprise an "ideal-fit"

These days it seems that almost any company could be called an “Internet-focused company.” But that attribution is particularly relevant for TechConnect, an online advertising and gaming company whose employees spend almost all of…

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Are your users' passwords secure enough?

Few would disagree that passwords are a part of our everyday lives. Most people use passwords for various different things, including to log in to their computer, email, instant messaging clients, social networks and online…

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Field Reports: For a 27-location company, OpenDNS Enterprise just makes sense

OpenDNS Enterprise is a great fit for organizations with multiple locations, including retailers, restaurants and large businesses with many distributed offices. But why? In today’s edition of Field Reports we show you a…

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Announcing the 2012 OpenDNS SysAdmin Awards

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: SysAdmins + IT Pros are awesome. To celebrate SysAdmin Appreciation Day (or SysAdmin Appreciation Month as it’s known around here), OpenDNS is proud to announce the 2012 OpenDNS…

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Disruption in Security: A New Paradigm for Prevention

Editorial note: Over the past few months OpenDNS CTO Dan Hubbard has shared his thoughts on where security will see the most disruption in the near future. This is the final chapter in the five-part blog series.

The fifth and…

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