Re: Blocking URLs

["Tevlin, Dave" <dtevlin () VISI ORG>]

Just to throw this into the mix on OpenDNS. Cisco announced their intent to
acquire OpenDNS yesterday.

Small FYI.

Dave

On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:22 PM, Chris Green <CGreen () uttyler edu> wrote:

> I am looking into OpenDNS now. Am I safe in assuming they used to offer a
> freemium model, but no more? Can anyone tell me what we would be looking at
> in cost to support roughly 1,500 users?
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> Thanks,
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> -C.
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> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:
> SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] *On Behalf Of *Pratt, Benjamin E.
> *Sent:* Friday, July 31, 2015 11:58 AM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* Re: [SECURITY] Blocking URLs
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> At the EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference there was a session
> about using OpenDNS for blocking these types of attacks. There are also
> many other options for controlling DNS to reduce this risk but if someone
> isn’t using your DNS, or is going directly to IPs, then it’s not effective.
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> Benjamin Pratt
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> ITS Security Team
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> St. Cloud State University
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> *From:* The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv [
> mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU <SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU>] *On
> Behalf Of *Chris Green
> *Sent:* Friday, July 31, 2015 11:47 AM
> *To:* SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> *Subject:* [SECURITY] Blocking URLs
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> All,
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> We are looking for a cost effective solution to prevent users from
> accessing sites when they fall for phishing attempts. Right now we are
> blocking IPs for those sites in our firewall, but this is not a great
> solution for us as we don’t want to load up our firewall with these types
> of rules, and the majority of these sites use dynamic IPs, so it’s a
> temporary fix at best.
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> I wanted to see if anyone had come up with a solution for this dilemma
> that doesn’t involve dropping six figures on an application firewall.
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> Thanks,
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> -C.
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> *Chris Green*
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> Information Security Officer
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> University of Texas at Tyler