DNS Filter

Informasis Technology General Manager İbrahim Arslan explained the DNS Filter solution and its benefits.

Arslan stated:

“DNS Filter is a solution that ensures the security of organizations and end-user devices through DNS requests sent by users during their internet activities. It is an effective solution on the end-user side. It prevents users from visiting harmful or unwanted websites, and prevents malicious software from infiltrating the organization’s network or devices. It can be fundamentally considered as filtering DNS requests. The working principle is generally very simple. DNS requests first go to the DNS Filter. The DNS Filter ensures that those requests are blocked in accordance with the organization’s policies and security policies. In this sense, the success of such a solution depends on its ability to categorize all domains and its very fast operation. If the solution does not know or recognize the domains being visited, and cannot categorize them or make an assessment about them, it will fail. DNS Filter has cataloged more than 950 million domains. It also has automatic AI-based mechanisms for categorizing newly emerging domains very quickly.” Thanks to this, even if previously unseen domains emerge, it can be categorized very quickly and the relevant policies applied to them. Furthermore, it performs these security scans almost in real-time, deciding whether the user should go to the desired location. Some figures show it handles 3 trillion queries per month. In this sense, DNS Filter is one of the world’s leading DNS filtering solutions. It serves 35 million users monthly. It can analyze and process 1.2 million queries per second. It also performs approximately 12 million blocks per day. These are some figures I want to give to illustrate how widely accepted DNS Filter is worldwide. We mentioned speed. Speed ​​is crucial for this type of solution. When users experience slowdowns due to such solutions, complaints usually start, productivity decreases, and then we see these solutions being phased out. DNS Filter is the fastest DNS filtering solution in the world. This has been tested and proven by independent tests. It achieves this through its presence in data centers located in many places around the world. Similarly, it also has a data center in Türkiye. This allows us to provide a quick solution for users in Türkiye as well. Here, DNS Filter’s solutions can be seen at various stages, from the endpoint to its destination. It can also be integrated into the network in various ways. Among the installation options, we can deploy it at a point on the network where all users will pass through, allowing them to undergo security scans without even being aware of it. Or, we can install a client on users and provide DNS filter security to them by having the client run on that device. Or, with a relay option, we can ensure that DNS requests pass through the DNS Filter. In short, we have a solution for every installation scenario that may be needed. It is a very easy-to-deploy solution and an important security enhancement solution. I believe that every organization should consider DNS filters, especially for quick deployment and security enhancement on the end-user side. You can always contact us with any questions you may have about this product. Thank you all for listening.