Are you are network operator or Internet service provider (ISP) seeking to understand what you need to do to implement DNSSEC within your network? Are you looking for guidance to help you understand how to proceed? If so, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) just published a set of “DNSSEC Implementation Practices for ISPs” through Read more…

In March 2012, the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) published a set of “DNSSEC Implementation Practices for ISPs” through one of the working groups of the FCC’s Communications Security, Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC).  The full report can be downloaded in PDF at: http://transition.fcc.gov/bureaus/pshs/advisory/csric3/CSRIC-III-WG5-Final-Report.pdf The 29-page document provides the following: A brief overview of Read more…

This morning at the SATIN 2012 conference in London I (Dan York) will be speaking on the topic of “challenges and opportunities in deploying DNSSEC“. Basically I’ll be providing a view of our experience here at Deploy360 over the past 6 months in looking at how to accelerate the deployment of DNSSEC.  As we have Read more…

At the SATIN 2012 conference on March 23, 2012, the Internet Society’s Dan York spoke about a paper that he and other members of the Internet Society staff developed outlining some of the challenges with DNSSEC deployment and identifying opportunities to simplify the user experience to accelerate DNSSEC deployment. The document is now available for Read more…

This week the folks at .SE in Sweden released a report full of DNS and DNSSEC information and statistics related to .SE at: .SE Health Status – DNS and DNSSEC (PDF) Today at the SATIN 2012 event in London, Anne-Marie Eklund Löwinder from .SE discussed many of the statistics and information contained in the report.    Read more…

Do you operate a Microsoft Windows server infrastructure and would like to know how to implement DNSSEC? If so, Microsoft published a “DNSSEC Deployment Guide” to help administrators of Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7 systems. The comprehensive document explains what DNSSEC is all about, walks step-by-step through each process and also provides easy Read more…

Looking for a good concise guide to the security issues and procedures related to deploying DNSSEC?  Back in March 2010, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) issued their “Good Practices Guide For Deploying DNSSEC” with the abstract: Deploying DNSSEC requires a number of security details and procedures to be defined and followed with Read more…

In March 2010, the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) issued their “Good Practices Guide For Deploying DNSSEC” with the abstract: Deploying DNSSEC requires a number of security details and procedures to be defined and followed with specific requirements as to timing. This guide addresses these issues from the point of view of information Read more…

If you are providing DNS services to your network using Windows servers and would like to understand how to deploy DNSSEC on those servers, Microsoft has a “DNSSEC Deployment Guide” available for download. Released in March 2010, it includes detailed information on configuring DNSSEC on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. From the overview: Read more…

The United States National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created an excellent “Special Publication” related to DNSSEC: Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide Like many of NIST’s Special Publications, the 118-page guide, last updated in April 2010, starts out with a tutorial about the basics of the technology, in this case DNS.  It Read more…