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NIOS 9.1.0: More Value, More Automation, More Resilience for Enterprise DDI
In every large organization, the network is the quiet backbone of the business. Employees expect to connect from anywhere, applications span multiple clouds and customers rely on digital services 24/7. Behind the scenes, critical network services like DNS, DHCP and IP address management, or DDI, keep all of that running. When those services slow down, […]
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Agent Discovery: A Foundational Security Issue for the Agentic Web
Infoblox recently submitted consultation responses to two key policy efforts shaping the future of AI security: the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore’s (CSA) Draft Addendum on Securing Agentic AI Systems and the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Cyber AI Profile. These consultations are designed to help governments and standards bodies understand emerging […]
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Connecting Dots with SSL Certificates: Finding Threat Actors with Graph Theory
Authors: Zafir Ansari and Darin Johnson Researchers at Infoblox use many advanced techniques to hunt threat actors and block threats early in their lifecycle. One particularly powerful approach leverages graph theory and SSL certificates to uncover threat actor operational relationships. In this blog, we describe how our certificate-driven threat intelligence system uncovers malicious domains, reveals […]
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Abusing .arpa: The TLD That Isn’t Supposed to Host Anything
Phishing email campaigns are so common that it takes something fundamentally different to stand out. We recently found campaigns using a novel, previously unreported method to get around security controls. Actors are abusing the .arpa top-level domain (TLD), in conjunction with IPv6 tunnels, to host phishing content on domains that should not resolve to an […]
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Network Transformation without the Trauma
When you hear the phrase “network transformation,” what comes to mind? Massive infrastructure overhauls? Major business disruption? Huge capital investments? You could be forgiven for assuming that modernizing IT operations always comes with a lot of pain—because historically, that’s exactly how transformation projects unfolded. But it doesn’t have to be that way. When we launched […]
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November 2025–January 2026 Innovations: What’s New in Infoblox DDI™
Enterprises are under pressure to modernize networks for hybrid, multi‑cloud and AI workloads. This modernization and these new demands require critical services like DNS, DHCP and IP address management (DDI) to evolve—without disruption. Over the past quarter, Infoblox has expanded the Infoblox Universal DDI™ Product Suite and NIOS with new integrations, views and automation capabilities […]
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Protective DNS: Harnessing DNS as a Core Weapon in MSSP Cyber Defense and Incident Response
For security operations center (SOC) teams and managed security service providers (MSSPs), the real challenge isn’t just responding to incidents but intercepting threats before they escalate. Attacks typically begin quietly, making early detection critical. At MSSP Alert Live, Chris Usserman, Global Public Sector chief technology officer at Infoblox, urged a shift: make Protective DNS central […]
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IoT DNS Security and Privacy with UCL and Inria
Introduction If we think about our home networks, we likely have more Internet of Things (IoT) and Operational Technology (OT) devices than traditional computers, and within enterprise networks these devices perform critical roles in security systems, building controls, manufacturing sensors and healthcare. University College London (UCL) and the Institut national de recherche en sciences et […]
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Banners, Bots and Butchers: An Automated Long Con Targeting Japan, Asia, and Beyond
Executive Summary Over the past few months, we investigated cryptocurrency investment scam campaigns that combined two distinct fraud models: malvertising, which typically directs victims to fake investment platforms, and pig butchering, a scam that relies heavily on social engineering to gradually extract larger and larger sums of money from each victim over time. Evidence indicates […]
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Leveraging Infoblox Universal Asset Insights™ to Visualize ServiceNow CMDB Accuracy
Overview & Challenges The ServiceNow Configuration Management Database (CMDB) plays a critical role across IT operations. It informs incident response, drives change management, supports security investigations and underpins compliance reporting. However, in most enterprise environments today, the CMDB struggles to keep pace with the reality of modern infrastructure. Assets are often discovered through disjointed tools […]
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Closing the CMDB Trust Gap Starts with the Network
For years, CIOs and infrastructure leaders have invested heavily in configuration management database (CMDB) initiatives with a clear goal: creating a trusted foundation for IT operations, security and business decision-making. Yet, despite those investments, most CMDB programs struggle to deliver lasting value. According to Gartner, 75 percent of CMDB initiatives fail to meet expectations due […]
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Novel AI Techniques for DNS Tunnel Security
Summary DNS tunneling is a critical security threat where malicious actors exploit the Domain Name System (DNS) to exfiltrate data and bypass network security controls by embedding unauthorized communications within legitimate DNS queries. This blog presents Infoblox’s machine learning-based detection system that achieves 99.9 percent precision, 99.5 percent recall and a 99.7 percent F1 score […]
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