Infoblox and Google Cloud announced a partnership that powers new products from each company that they say will help enterprise organizations accelerate their cloud adoption with advanced networking and security capabilities.
Infoblox Universal DDI for Google’s Cloud WAN combines Google Cloud Cross-Cloud Network infrastructure with Infoblox’s DNS and DHCP capabilities to enable enterprise customers to quickly deploy Universal DDI’s NIOS-X as a Service more easily. The product provides infrastructure-free DNS and DHCP services anywhere in the world, according to Infoblox, and it is tightly integration with Google Cloud Cross-Cloud Network.
“The integration of Infoblox Universal DDI with Google Cloud WAN is a major step forward for enterprises looking to streamline how they manage core network services. Traditionally, setting up DNS, DHCP, and IP address management (DDI) meant dealing with a mix of hardware, virtual machines, and manual configuration across multiple environments. This integration replaces all of that with a cloud-native, fully managed solution that’s built into Google’s global cloud infrastructure—so organizations can deploy and manage network services quickly, without the operational overhead,” said Mukesh Gupta, chief product officer at Infoblox.
“By bringing these services into a single, unified platform, teams get centralized visibility and control across their entire network—no matter where their users, applications, or data centers are. It reduces the friction of scaling globally, ensures consistent performance, and gives enterprises a more intelligent and resilient foundation for connecting everything from remote branches to cloud workloads.” Gupta said.
According to the vendor, Infoblox Universal DDI for Cloud WAN offering will let enterprise organizations:
- Replace multiple bespoke WAN and MPLS products to conduct workloads, offices, data centers, and users over the Google private backbone.
- Reduce on-premises hardware and virtualization software for critical network services with a cloud-delivered option.
- Reclaim orphaned resources and address security risks, by automatically discovering conflicting subnets, zombie assets, and dangling DNS records across public clouds to eliminate outages.
- Secure branch offices and enable rapid response to security incidents and consistent security policy enforcement across all sites.
- Gain access to Google’s global network.
The partnership also provides customers with Google’s DNS Armor from Google Cloud, usoing Infoblox’s expertise in protective DNS and DNS-centric threat intelligence to secure cloud workloads and deliver simplified, scalable threat detection. This product let enterprise organizations inspect DNS communications for malicious activity, including ransomware, command and control, data exfiltration, Zero Day DNS threats, and domain generation algorithms.
“Google Cloud DNS Armor, powered by Infoblox delivers powerful, preemptive protection against a wide range of modern cyber threats by using DNS as a first line of defense. Because nearly every cyberattack touches DNS at some point—whether it’s ransomware calling home, data being exfiltrated, or threat actors using domain generation algorithms—DNS Armor is uniquely positioned to detect malicious activity early in the attack chain,” Gupta explained.
“The solution inspects DNS queries in real time to identify suspicious behavior like command-and-control communications, zero-day threats, and domains tied to known adversaries. Unlike traditional security tools that react after damage is done, DNS Armor proactively flags and blocks threats—often more than two months before other systems catch them. And because it’s natively integrated into Google Cloud, it’s easy for customers to activate and manage directly from the console without adding complexity or requiring new infrastructure. This means stronger protection with less effort, and a more secure environment for cloud workloads,” Gupta said.
With this product, enterprise customers can activate and configure DNS threat detection directly on the Google Cloud console, and administrators can monitor DNS queries and access DNS threat logs to enable early threat detection.
“As cyber threats grow more sophisticated, the collaboration between Infoblox and Google Cloud delivers a game-changing approach to network security,” said Bob Walker, senior domain network engineer, Lloyds Banking Group, in a statement. “Google Cloud’s DNS Armor, powered by Infoblox, harnesses the best of both technologies—cutting-edge DNS threat intelligence and scalable cloud architecture—to provide enterprises with robust protection against emerging threats.”
According to Infoblox, DNS Armor uses Infoblox DNS technology to gain visibility to find DNS-based attacks with a low false positive rate. The visibility reduces the risk of malware, data breaches, and cyberattacks for Google Cloud customers.
“Infoblox powers Google Cloud’s DNS Armor with intelligence beyond just a DNS block list—tracking activity of potential adversaries to uncover and flag every corner of their malicious network,” said Chris Kissel, research vice president, security and trust, IDC in a statement. “The first challenge to cybersecurity is it’s typically reactive, and DNS Armor, powered by Infoblox, provides a preemptive solution to securing cloud workloads that doesn’t add additional complexity or compute.”
Universal DDI for Cloud WAN will be available at the end of this month, and DNS Armor will be available later this year.
Source:: Network World