The IT Nerd

If you were someone who didn’t want to use your ISP’s DNS server, one of the options to go with was OpenDNS which brought speed and a bunch of other advantages to the table. With today’s announcement that Cisco has acquired OpenDNS, some may feel that it may be time to look for an alternative. Here’s what the press release says as to why Cisco scooped them up:

Typically devices and people connected to the network are easier to identify and track for potential security threats. However in a world in which devices and people can connect from anywhere at anytime, enterprise IT teams have increasingly limited visibility into potential threats from these unmonitored and potentially unsecure entry points into the network, creating tremendous security risk. Combining OpenDNS’ broad visibility, unique predictive threat intelligence and cloud platform with Cisco’s robust security and threat capabilities will increase awareness across the extended network, both on- and off-premise, reduce the time to detect and respond to threats, and mitigate risk of a security breach.

Now they do say that OpenDNS isn’t going anywhere and the way they work isn’t changing, but I wonder if that’s the long term vision. If you’re the least bit nervous, Level 3’s DNS service may be an alternative for you. I wrote an article on that a while ago. In the meantime, It will be interesting to see what happens to OpenDNS going forward.

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