Email is a critical piece of our technical stack as business owners. This is especially true if you’re using your domain for emails (e.g., tony@noc.org vs tony@gmail.com). Ensuring the security of this piece of our tech stack is imperative. Emails have proven an easy vector to abuse, contributing to successful Phishing campaigns, Account Takeovers, Spoofing […]
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Bringing A Domain to Life: Choosing Between Closed and Open Web Platforms
Choosing how to bring your domain to life is an important decision. Like with everything, the $10 / year annual subscription for the domain itself is only the beginning. One of the more important, and often overlooked, decision is choosing between Open and Closed platforms. This is a relatively new phenomena, thinking within the last […]
Registries, Registrars and DNS
There are fundamental elements that play a critical role in ensuring the internets functionality and accessibility. Among these, three key components stand out—registries, registrars, and the Domain Name System (DNS). While these terms may sound technical and complex, they form the backbone of our online experiences, shaping the way we navigate the web and access […]
The Affects of a CDN on your Websites Performance and Users Experience (and Google)
One of the most common questions we get related to our CDN is about performance. How much faster does it really make a website? Is it worth the trouble to enable a CDN for my site? Does performance have a material impact? Is it worth the cost benefit analysis? Let’s explore those questions. In this […]
Securing WordPress in The Enterprise
Approaching a web applications security is as much about mindset as it is about the tools and configurations you deploy. It’s why security professional always talk about people > process > technology. Unfortunately, in almost every incident response instance the former components, of people and process, are often nonexistent. I blame a lot of this […]
Responding to Website Security Incidents – Incident Response Plan Basics
If there is one thing that we have learned from vulnerabilities like Log4Shell, Heartbleed, Apache Struts Framework, Shellshock, and so many others is that when it comes to the components that power the web, the fabric of the internet, we are not prepared. That acknowledgement is critical in helping us psychologically acknowledge that security itself […]
The Domain Name System (DNS)
In our previous article, we explored the relationships between Registrars, Registries and DNS. In this article, we will dive deeper into the world of DNS. The art of Routing Web Requests (Hello DNS) DNS stands for Domain Name System (DNS), you might hear it used interchangeably with Domain Name Server (DNS). It is the mechanism that […]