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associated with any security event detected in the cloud. This ability can be seamlessly extended
to workloads running in private and public clouds as well.
• Increases flexibility: With a hybrid solution, customers may choose to leverage their on premise
DNS servers to block access to domains based on curated low false positive threat intelligence
and leverage the cloud for a more comprehensive threat assessment based on a lot more threat
data as well as big data analytics.
• Improves visibility: Hybrid solutions offer a single pane of glass for managing security across the
enterprise DNS infrastructure.
• Enables threat prioritization: Rich network context data, e.g., where the device sits in the network,
who is the user, how critical is the asset from a business standpoint, etc., that was locked up in
network control protocols located on premise can be made available in the security dashboards
and used to intelligently prioritize threats for remediation.
• Improves intelligence: On-premise network and user context is automatically shared with the
SaaS component of the solution, and security events detected in SaaS can be shared back with
the security ecosystem on premise, creating a closed intelligence loop across the enterprise.
Indicators of compromise can be shared in real time with existing security infrastructure (on
premise or in the cloud) including endpoint security, NAC, vulnerability management, and SIEM
solutions for an automated incident response such as quarantine, scan, or killing of malicious
processes running on suspicious devices.
About the Author
Kanaiya is an executive leader with a proven track record of bringing
new technology to market as well as managing large businesses and
product P&Ls. He leads product management, product & technical
marketing, corporate development and business development for
Infoblox. Prior to Infoblox, Kanaiya held several senior leadership roles
at Juniper Networks including Corporate VP for Business and Corporate
Development and VP of Product Management for Juniper’s core routing
business. He has extensive experience in software, networking and
telecom, and has previously served in senior management positions at
Terayon, Lantern Communications, ADC Telecom, and Network
Systems Corp. He holds Masters Degrees in Management of
Technology and Computer Science from University of Minnesota.
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