A New Chapter in DNS Security and Control: Infoblox for External Authoritative DNS

Infoblox announces an expanded External Authoritative DNS portfolio delivering unified DNS management across internal and external environments (now including Cloudflare and Akamai), adaptive protection for self-hosted authoritative DNS via DNS Infrastructure Protection, and brand protection services to detect and remove lookalike domains. The piece emphasizes the business impact of DNS outages and attacks (DDoS, hijacking, cache poisoning, NXDOMAIN exploits) and recommends operational strategies such as single-pane management and hybrid redundancy to improve availability, security, and resilience for public-facing applications.