OpenDNS CTO Dan Hubbard appeared on Bloomberg TV this morning to discuss the technology behind Syria’s recent Internet outage. He discusses the likelihood of government involvement vs. technical failure, and shares details…
The Umbrella Security Labs team reported today that traffic to Syria dropped off the Internet around 18:45 UTC. On closer inspection it seems Syria has largely disappeared from the Internet.
Shortly after our team broke the…
If you haven’t been keeping up with the Umbrella Security Labs team on our blog or by following us on Twitter, you’re missing out on some really thoughtful research and innovations. For example, we recently announced the…
Big Data has become a dominant theme in Internet security today, as it has massive potential to help vendors shift from collecting and reacting to threats to actually predicting them. But how can you find out whether a vendor is…
OpenDNS recently unveiled the Umbrella Security Graph, a new tool that enables researchers to not only analyze known threats, but to predict future threat origins as well. The revolutionary tool combines Big Data analytics, graph…
RSA, the world’s largest security conference, is held each year in San Francisco, OpenDNS’s backyard. The week-long conference consists of countless events, from educational sessions to blockbuster parties.
But for security…
Later this month thousands of security professionals will gather in San Francisco for the annual RSA Security Conference. The conference’s theme this year centers around how Big Data will inform changes to Internet security over…
2012 was an outstanding year for OpenDNS. We’ve shared a number of great stats about the health of our business and the great security company we’re building with the press, and I wanted to share them here, too.
We grew our…
Last Thursday OpenDNS hosted 150 guests from the SF Data Mining meetup group for a night of insightful talks on Big Data. After filling up on plenty of beer and pizza, attendees made their way upstairs to enjoy presentations from…
There has been a lot of news regarding Syria’s Internet shutdown that lasted for over 2 days before service has been restored on Saturday. One item that has not been covered in detail is traffic going *into* servers hosted within…
