Overview
BlueCat DNS Edge Service Point for AWS extends the capabilities of DNS Edge providing visibility and control of all DNS traffic.
Edge adds a much-needed layer of visibility, control, and detection for corporate networks under siege from an explosion of malware attacks that exploit DNS. Edge gives network and IT teams unprecedented access to DNS query data with which they can establish smarter policies, optimize traffic and meet stringent compliance and logging requirements.
Edge reduces your attack surface. For security architects and IT staff that need to limit access to sensitive data and lock down critical systems like cloud apps and services, Edge makes it easy to ingest threat intelligence to block access to well-known bad domains.
Edge detects malicious behavior hidden in millions of DNS queries and response activities. Cybersecurity teams seeking to detect and stop data exfiltration like tunneling, beaconing to C2 servers, or evasive techniques like DGA, use Edge's smart analytics developed by BlueCat's decades of DNS expertise to spot malicious behavior among all DNS queries across their network.
Edge reduces time to respond and remediate breaches. For incident response teams faced with the challenge of uncovering the lateral spread of an infection and rooting out patient zero in a cyberattack, Edge makes it easy to pinpoint the origin and review the internal and external DNS activity surrounding an incident to reduce the time to resolution.
Highlights
- Edge adds a much-needed layer of visibility, control, and detection for corporate networks under siege by malware attacks that exploit DNS.
- Edge detects malicious behavior hidden in millions of DNS queries and response activities.
- Edge reduces time to respond and remediate breaches.
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Pricing
Additional AWS infrastructure costs
Type | Cost |
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EBS General Purpose SSD (gp2) volumes | $0.10/per GB/month of provisioned storage |
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Delivery details
64-bit (x86) Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
An AMI is a virtual image that provides the information required to launch an instance. Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) instances are virtual servers on which you can run your applications and workloads, offering varying combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and networking resources. You can launch as many instances from as many different AMIs as you need.
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Usage instructions
- In the Amazon AWS Console, navigate to your EC2 Dashboard, click Launch Instance, and select AWS Marketplace.
- Search for BlueCat DNS Edge Service Point, select the image and click Select.
- For Instance Type, select one of the c5.large, c5.xlarge, or c5.2xlarge, and click Next: Configure Instance Details.
- Specify the Number of instances to deploy.
- Click Advanced Details and for User Data paste the contents of the configuration file that you downloaded from the DNS Edge Sites page, or choose the file. Make sure to select Input is already base64 encoded.
- Click Next: Add Storage.
- For Size, enter 20, and for Volume Type, select General Purpose SSD (GP2), then click Next: Add Tags.
- This step is optional. If you want to add a tag, add a key-value pair. For example, you might add the key SiteName with the value "your_site_name". When you are done, click Next: Configure Security Group.
- Select the automatically created security group. If you choose to create a new one, make sure inbound and outbound access is configured per the requirements listed in the BlueCat DNS Edge Deployment Guide accessible by existing BlueCat customers here: https://care.bluecatnetworks.com/a141W000007rkmz . When you are done, click Review and Launch.
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