Gartner: Despite DDoS attacks, don’t give up on Dyn or DNS service providers

The DDoS attacks that flooded Dyn last month and knocked some high-profile Web sites offline don’t mean businesses should abandon it or other DNS service providers, Gartner says.

In fact, the best way to go is to make sure critical Web sites are backed by more than one DNS provider, says Gartner analyst Bob Gill.

It’s also the easiest way for an enterprise to defend against this type of attack and the only one known to be effective. “There’s nothing more elegant anyone has come up with in the intervening week,” he says.

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