BlueCat DNS
Highly available, resilient, scalable and secure DNS services for your network

Overview:

Business demands are placing significant pressure on the enterprise network to rapidly evolve. Core services are increasingly critical, representing the sole point of access to business services for end users and customers. When DNS services fail, business stops; websites are unreachable, network-dependant applications including email, ERP and CRM cannot function and users cannot locate network resources and cloud services., BlueCat DNS is scalable and easy to manage, providing the foundation for robust network systems that are designed and architected to accommodate the dynamic needs of your business.

Always on
BlueCat DNS ensures your critical network infrastructure and business-critical core services are reliable, resilient and highly available and that no configuration change can cause an outage or leave stale or inconsistent DNS records.

Reduce risk of network failure
BlueCat delivers scalable, resilient and highly available DNS services across the enterprise, with the flexibility to deploy in high-throughput, centralized architectures, or fully distributed environments with thousands of service delivery points.

Increase virtual and cloud agility
Simplify provisioning for physical, virtual and cloud environments by automating the assignment of IP addresses and names for new servers, virtual machines and workloads in the cloud.

Secure the enterprise
Leverage the pervasiveness of DNS to pre-empt and filter malicious activities for all devices and applications in violation of policies before they can affect business-critical data. BlueCat DNS maps users to their devices and tracks network activity enabling the removal, quarantine or blacklisting of devices with a single click.

DNS is a core network service enabling critical applications for every organization, representing the sole point of access to business services for end users and customers. When DNS services fail, business stops; websites are unreachable, network-dependant applications including email, ERP and CRM cannot function and users cannot locate network resources and cloud services.

Prepare for the unpredictable

BlueCat delivers a reliable and secure DNS service that is scalable and easy to manage, providing the foundation for robust network systems that are designed and architected to accommodate the dynamic needs of your business.

No compromise core network services

BlueCat delivers scalable, resilient and highly available DNS services across the enterprise, with the flexibility to deploy in high-throughput, centralized architectures, or fully-distributed environments with thousands of service delivery points.

Full referential integrity is maintained throughout by tracking and enforcing the relationship between a host’s unique identifier, DNS hostname, dependant DNS records and lease information, ensuring that no configuration change can cause an outage or leave stale or inconsistent DNS records. Integration with Microsoft Active Directory ensures that all necessary service records are published within DNS.

DNS to secure the enterprise

BlueCat’s DNS firewall leverages the pervasiveness of DNS to preempt and filter malicious activities for all devices and applications before they can affect business-critical data. BlueCat Threat Protection adds an additional layer of security for defense in depth strategies, by injecting accurate and up-to-date domain and IP reputation data directly into the DNS service, blocking new threats as fast as they appear. Further, BlueCat DNS safeguards core services against exploits and attacks through DNS Blacklisting and simple, single-click signing policies for DNSSEC key and rollover setting configuration.

Gain insight into network activity and behavior

We manage a wealth of data, bringing together key network information from a broad set of sources including utilization, system events, network structure and user inputs. For DNS, the intersection of information such as queries and blocked responses, redirects and details regarding the query requester, begin to define the behavior of your system, and can be reduced to create models of user activity, offering insight into how your network resources are being used, and building patterns within your user-base to assist with anomaly detection and early predictors of undesirable behavior.

The Power of DNS, for the Cloud

BlueCat DNS for Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud, enables the same level of agility, secure operation, simplification, and dependability that our customers have come to expect on their enterprise-class networks running BlueCat’s DNS/DHCP Solution. BlueCat DNS for AWS enables easy integration with on-premises BlueCat DNS/DHCP Services, unifying into current network infrastructure while simultaneously maintaining a consistent architecture. In addition, it safeguards your DNS services while maintaining a highly efficient and agile network infrastructure.