Phishing happens. It is probably happening as you read this. Right now, some well-defended company is having data under its care exposed. This data may contain sensitive information, such as login credentials, and in many cases, it is only known that an attack of this type has taken place after the fact. Protecting yourself and your employer against phishing attacks relies foremost on critical thinking; however, there are some business processes and technologies that can help.

DNS, the Domain Name Service, is the Internet service that translates IP addresses into hostnames, and visa versa. It enables you to type www.exoprise.com in a browser, or send an email to someone at that domain, and have your request actually go to 35.172.52.247. As a vital part of the Internet infrastructure, DNS attacks can have a serious impact on your online operations, including access to your website and email.

Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is one of the most insidious types of digital attacks that can cause cloud outages. It is typically directed at a specific target, and if done competently, can bring an application or even all network traffic to its knees.