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U.S. OMB To Require Agencies to Secure DNS Servers

John Rendleman writes on GCN.com:

The Office of Management and Budget will soon require agencies to configure their Doman Name System (DNS) servers to the security specifications set by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

OMB will issue a memo outlining the new policy shortly, according to Karen Evans, OMB’s administrator for electronic government and information technology.

The policy will roughly follow DNS security guidelines already published by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, according to Evans. The guidelines, published in NIST Special Publication 800-81 [.pdf] and titled "Secure Domain Name System (DNS) Deployment Guide"...

posted by Fergie @ 5/14/2008 05:25:00 PM