In our last article, we shared thoughts on how DNS can be used as an effective security control for your organization by functioning as a Firewall. In this article, we step back and focus security landscape as it pertains to DNS. This article is designed to educate and illustrates the complexities of managing your DNS […]
Author: Tony Perez
A DNS Firewall For Every Network
We spend a lot of time talking about CleanBrowsing in the context of content filtering, but in this article we’re going to spend some time focusing on the security benefits you get with CleanBrowsing. By default, security is built into the CleanBrowsing service. It is foundation to every Free and Paid service. Organizations have the […]
Internet Filters Are a Deterrent & Safeguard not an Absolute
We built CleanBrowsing to provide our kids with a set of guard rails while online. Since, the service has grown organically to over 5 billion requests a day, being used by large enterprises, parents, and everything in between. Through this process, we have been intimately familiar with the ongoing debate around the effectiveness of internet […]
The DNS Communication Hierarchy
CleanBrowsing is a DNS resolver that offers a content filtering service, it is why we say we are a DNS-based content filtering platform. But how exactly does that effect you, the user, when change your DNS? This article aims to focus on the communication hierarchy that exists, and that you should be aware of, when […]
Different Types of Content Filtering
CleanBrowsing is a DNS Filtering platform that allows you to deploy content filtering on your network. This means we can filter Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN), which means;: State Example CAN block badexample.com CAN NOT Block badexample.com/path/to/file.php What we can and cannot block is a direct reflection of the technology we have chosen to focus […]