OpenDNS: A technology solution that simply makes sense.

OpenDNS Web Surfing made a little bit safer.

Websites visited by users in any company, not just the electrical distributor, can wreak havoc on a company's network of any size. A lot of dollars are invested in technology to limit what users can access and to prevent the introduction of virus, worms, bots, and extra unnecessary bandwidth.

Now there's OpenDNS, a great add on solution to this age old problem. If you didn't know, when you type an address into Internet Explorer or Firefox, what you are typing is being "interpreted" by an internet phone book called DNS.

The name is converted to a number called an IP address which tells the servers on the internet where you are trying to go. DNS or Domain Name System is the service that does this translation and every computer on your network needs to know the IP address of a "Domain Name Server" in order to be able to surf the internet. This means that you are using DNS today whether you realize it or not.

OpenDNS is a "Domain Name Server", with a twist. Rather than just directing traffic, OpenDNS is actively putting up road blocks or enabling your system administrator to put up road blocks that prevent any user connected to your network from surfing where you don't want them to go.

They can also provide reporting on where traffic leaving your network is going which can alert you to a symptom of a larger problem, like a virus. You may have even seen them in the news as they were able to tell when a network was likely compromised by the Conficker virus based on the traffic patterns they saw on the date it was to contact the internet.

This "Road Block" methodology can recover significant bandwith, protect your network, and provide valuable feedback about your network traffic. Want control over keeping people from going to MySpace during work hours?

Using a service like this can significantly speed up your network for all of your users as it eliminates the connections to the bandwidth hogging social network, video, and music sites and makes your network a little safer as well.

This just simply makes sense.

Check it out at OpenDNS

Comments

[Circuit Breaker]

I love OpenDNS - faster, reliable and safer. It lives up to their promise.