Farsight Security Announces General Availability of DNSDB® Community Edition

Nearly everything on the Internet relies on DNS. Security teams need to uncover relationships among DNS assets such as IP addresses and domain names in an investigation. Now security professionals have free access to the gold standard of DNS intelligence


SAN MATEO, Calif., March 27, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Farsight Security, Inc., a leading cybersecurity provider of DNS intelligence solutions, today announced general availability of DNSDB® Community Edition, an entry-level version of the company’s flagship product, DNSDB®.

The product was recently introduced at the RSA® Conference in San Francisco, where it was named a hot new cybersecurity product by CRN®.  DNSDB® Community Edition is now available to interested security professionals.

Farsight DNSDB® is the world’s largest historical DNS intelligence database and contains more than100 billion DNS resolution records. Starting with a single suspicious domain or IP address, security professionals can query DNSDB® Community Edition to find related DNS digital artifacts, from name servers to other IP addresses or domain names, to map an adversary’s malicious infrastructure.

“An analyst with the ability to view the entire history of a DNS record can instantly identify highly valuable indicators to improve the overall security posture and threat actor attribution. The goal is always to identify and mitigate threats as quickly as possible. A free version of DNSDB provides the world access to critical DNS information that can be used to secure home environments as well as large network infrastructures,” said Tyrone E. Wilson, Founder & President, Cover6 Solutions.

“Whether the starting point of a customer's investigation is a suspicious domain name in an email address, an IP address or another Indicator of Compromise (IOC), Farsight DNSDB provides actionable information about these artifacts that measurably improves the time to detect and respond to today’s threats. Now with the launch of DNSDB® Community Edition, more security professionals will be able to use the industry’s gold standard of historical DNS intelligence to advance their investigations,” said Ofer Padan, VP Product, CyberInt.

DNSDB® Community Edition offers a subset of the full enterprise version of DNSDB®. For more details on the new product offering, visit here. For easy use, DNSDB® Community Edition users can query DNSDB® using DNSDB Scout™, the graphical interface for DNSDB®, which is available as a Google Chrome Extension™ and Mozilla Firefox Add-on.

Pricing & Availability
Farsight DNSDB® Community Edition is free and is available now. For more information and to signup for the product, please visit here.

About Farsight Security
Farsight Security, Inc. is the world’s largest provider of historical and real-time DNS intelligence solutions. We enable security teams to qualify, enrich and correlate all sources of threat data and ultimately save time when it is most critical - during an attack or investigation. Our solutions provide enterprise, government and security industry personnel and platforms with unmatched global visibility, context and response. Farsight Security is headquartered in San Mateo, California, USA. Learn more about how we can empower your threat platform and security team with Farsight Security passive DNS solutions at www.farsightsecurity.com or follow us on Twitter: @FarsightSecInc.

Karen Burke
Director of Corporate Communications
Farsight Security, Inc.
kburke@fsi.io 
650-814-3764