SafeDNS has been featured as a top-rated product in Software Advice’s FrontRunner Report 2022 for Cybersecurity Software category. Here’s our placement in the Grid report:

SafeDNS is also proud to announce its multiple award-winning streak in 2022 by Capterra. We were recognized in Capterra Shortlists in 2 categories this year as Emerging Favorite: Cybersecurity & Endpoint Protection.

Thanks to our clients who made it possible! We received some stellar reviews on Capterra:

“Safe DNS is a company that accomplishes what they commit to offering. They have great customer service and competitive pricing.” [Scott M.]

“SafeDNS is a solid DNS based content filtering solution. The reliability and consistency is great.” [Thomas M.]

“SafeDNS is a really great product, we have been using it for over 5 years now and it’s really robust.” [Jason T.]

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At the beginning of October, our company faced a serious hacker attack.To ensure the operability of our services for all of our clients all around the world, we have several nodes – in different data centers across the globe. It was one of these nodes that was attacked and completely disabled.

How is this possible? All of our servers are well protected and accept management requests only from addresses known to us, and the authentication by username and password is generally prohibited, which makes it impossible to log on using brute force or a directory attack. However, this attack turned out to be successful. The reason is that the hackers were not trying to get access to our system, they got access to the hardware. They used vulnerabilities in the Supermicro software, a US manufacturer of server motherboards. It is a very large and well known manufacturer of server hardware with a good reputation. For the sake of convenience of remote server administration, the manufacturer has a hardware and software complex called “Supermicro IPMI”, which allows you to remotely connect to the I / O system of the motherboard and thus directly control the hardware. Naturally, it provides protection against unauthorized access. However, several critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in recent years. Access to this utility on all our servers is also restricted to addresses known to us. However, on one single server, due to uncoordinated actions of the technical support of the data center, no such restrictions were set. Due to this set of circumstances (lack of access restrictions and presence of vulnerabilities) intruders were able to get access to our equipment.

What were the consequences? As a result of malefactors’ actions all the information on one of the servers was destroyed. But it didn’t affect our clients in any way. The load of serving our customers was taken by neighboring nodes. No customer data was stolen (it was never there), no customer statistics or settings were lost, since they were copied on all other nodes. After a few days the situation was completely normalized: we examined the problem, restored the functionality of the node and ensured its further security.

But why were we attacked? Most likely, because we have some data to steal. Just like any other company, large or small, IT-related or not at all. Bear this in mind when you underestimate a hacker’s interest in your data.

In any case, the hackers did not manage to do any damage to our clients and no tangible damage to ourselves. However, it certainly added to our experience. Usually, everyone keeps a close eye on vulnerabilities in the OS, software code, libraries used, and so on. Rarely does anyone think about the fact that it is important to keep an eye on updating the motherboard firmware (BIOS) or its individual components (IPMI) for security in general. Especially since technically it is quite a complicated process. Hopefully, our story has reminded you to do both.

To prevent yourself & your company from similar cases, trust SafeDNS to provide you with DNS Security. 

SafeDNS has updated Security categories that now have DGA, Cryptojacking and others as part of the Security group.

New categories include Malware, Ransomware, Phishing & Typosquatting (sites deceiving internet users, fake pages, scams, fraud), Cryptojacking (sites illegally mining cryptocurrencies) & DGA which is algorithms detected in various malware families, which are used to periodically generate a large number of domain names that can be used as a default with their management and control servers.

We also just carried out work to optimize the processing of statistical data, which made it possible to reduce the speed of collecting statistics, achieving relevance indicators at the level of 5-10 minutes, instead of 30-60 minutes earlier.

Current task is to work towards real-time statistics which should be up by the end of 2022 – early 2023. 

NAPPAA, which for over 32 years has been ensuring that parents purchase the highest quality products that help them connect and enjoy time with their families, highlighted SafeDNS as the best in the industry.

“This site offers many choices and can be set up on every device or just the child’s device. There are so many ways to use this program and what I really like is that it can be used to protect the elderly from becoming victims of fraud.”

GetApp, an established software review, and recommendation engine, featured SafeDNS in its “10 Must-Have IT Tools for IT Professionals” report. With an overall rating of 4.7,SafeDNS was mentioned as one of the Must-Have IT Tools for IT Professionals with an overall positive rating of 97%.

Not only this, SafeDNS is a winner of not 1 but 2 GetApp Category Leaders reports in the first half of this year! Check out our incredible win:

• Endpoint Protection
• Cloud Security

SafeDNS has been a top-rated product on GetApp. Our users have made it possible! Check out our performance on GetApp –

Here’s what our users have to say about us:

“SafeDNS is a really great product, we have been using it for over 5 years now and it’s really robust. We deploy for all our customers internal networks and this includes our Azure infrastructure and it just works.”

Jason T.

“We have been using this software for years and are very happy with the results. School and Parents are grateful for the safety this software brings to us. When I check our stats and can see the protection that is being provided. Makes us very happy.”

Ruth P.

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