Latest from CISA shared services office: ‘Protective DNS’ now available across civilian federal agencies

CISA has concluded months of “beta testing” with federal partners and is now offering its Protective Domain Name System to civilian agencies across the federal government, “to detect and prevent threats in internet traffic and raise our collective cyber defense,” the cyber agency announced Wednesday.

“Protective DNS shields federal users and organizations from reaching known or suspected malicious destinations with a cutting-edge capability that safeguards network connections,” CISA executive assistant director for cyber Eric Goldstein said in a blog...