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DNS Is Your Most Critical — and Most Misconfigured — Security Control

Ponith Attili is a Senior Software Engineer at CheckRed, specializing in DNS security, cloud security, and large-scale distributed systems. He is passionate about building secure, scalable, and high-performance platforms that strengthen the reliability and visibility of DNS, cloud, and SaaS infrastructure. He enjoys exploring new technologies and innovative approaches, focusing on transforming complex requirements into clean, intuitive solutions. With a strong enthusiasm for DNS and cloud security, he continuously seeks to improve the resilience and trust of modern systems.

Key takeaways

Driven by a recent 300% surge in AI bot traffic, automated scanners are systematically exploiting DNS misconfigurations — such as dangling CNAMEs and lapsed delegations — at machine speed.

The updated NIST guidelines formally elevate DNS from a mere operational utility to a foundational layer of network security within Zero Trust…