DNS is often the first control plane adversaries abuse for command and control, phishing, and exfiltration. This landing explains practical controls from recursive resolvers to sinkhole policy.
of malware families rely on DNS for staging or callback infrastructure.
faster triage when DNS analytics is merged with endpoint and identity logs.
enforcement possible with policy automation and threat feed refresh cycles.
Deploy preventive control at the naming layer and stop malicious domains before payload execution begins.