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PowerDNS Protect

Against Malware, For Families

Provide your subscribers with a safe and child-friendly internet experience with PowerDNS Protect. Secure smartphones, tablets, and laptops, as well as IoT devices against malware, phishing, and other malicious online threats. Let them use parental controls to filter inappropriate content for family members using different profiles for each and manage access during specific times.

Both PowerDNS Protect for Malware and PowerDNS Protect for Families can be used as standalone products or bundled together for full protection. All are easy to set up and do not require any additional hardware

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PowerDNS Protect for Families

Children nowadays not only play with the kids next door – the online world also plays an increasingly important role in their life from a young age and comes with many advantages. However, it also comes with some challenges, including access to inappropriate content such as gambling, violence, cyberbullying and adult content. PowerDNS Protect for Families allows parents to control access to specific content and help keep their kids safe.

Manage access to categories

PowerDNS Protect provides parental control options to create a safer browsing experience for the entire family. Access to categories of websites with inappropriate content can be defined and managed easily.

  • Gambling
  • Pornography
  • Violence
  • Social media
  • Streaming services
  • Online games
  • Etc.
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Define schedules

Time windows for categories like social networks help restrict temporary access for homework or family dinner times. Internet access can also be blocked completely, for example at bedtime.

  • Bedtime
  • Homework time
  • Dinner/family time
  • Pause internet access
  • Etc.
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Handle devices individually

Subscribers are able to create user profiles and groups to change permissions for multiple family members or devices at once, but also more granular options are available whenever needed.

  • Default profiles are available, e.g. kids, teenagers, adults, guests
  • New devices are auto-detected
  • Assign filtering profiles per device
  • Devices can be allocated to profiles and groups
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Your Brand

PowerDNS Protect comes with a white-labeled web control panel and extensive integration options using an API.

  • Brandable web application
  • Can be integrated with existing portals or applications
  • Comes with onboarding wizards for simple instructions
  • Manage settings and filters
  • Real-time alerts and push notifications for suspicious events
  • Reports, including activity and blocking for household or per-device
  • Easy to integrate into existing apps
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Content Access with DNS-Filtering

The filtering engine uses threat intelligence to block access to known bad domain names, those that resolve to known bad IP addresses (i.e., IP blocking), those that depend on known bad name servers and domains that correspond to known botnet command and control (C2) servers. It allows the use of multiple threat categorization lists and supports major threat-intelligence providers. Applying policy at the DNS level is highly scalable and avoids having to deploy expensive DPI equipment in the core network, saving your budgets and increasing network performance.

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PowerDNS Protect for Malware

Current trends like 5G, IoT devices and working from home increase internet traffic and attract even more malicious activities. With on-device security no longer practical, new security measures are needed. Because almost every action on the internet uses DNS, DNS-based security with PowerDNS Protect for Malware is very reliable, highly scalable, cost-effective, and therefore ideal to protect subscribers.

Security for Mobile and Fixed Networks

  • Provides a secure connectivity experience for all connected devices (traditional and IoT) using the broadband or mobile network
  • Secures against malware, phishing and visiting malicious domains, and protects your subscribers’ devices from being infected or hacked
  • Protects your infrastructure from DDoS attacks
  • Blocks access to botnet Command and Control (C2) domains
  • Detects infected devices and notifies users via text or push notifications in real time, so action can be taken
  • Starts working immediately without any hardware required
  • Based on lookups in white and blacklists, DNS filtering and encrypted traffic
  • Bundled with malware and phishing threat intelligence from PowerDNS and partners
  • Open architecture to include your existing and specific additional threat intelligence
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Security Dashboard and Real-time Notifications

PowerDNS Protect keeps users informed about any malicious activities. It comes with a security-dashboard and regular reports providing an overview of blocked malware, detected botnets and more. It also provides real-time notifications for specific events, allowing the user to act.

  • Regular reports provide updates and overviews for users
  • A security dashboard shows the security status of their network and the connected devices at any time
  • Push-notifications can be sent in case of imminent threats
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Filtering DNS Traffic

PowerDNS Protect is based on DNS and filtering malicious DNS traffic. It comes with PowerDNS Recursor and DNSdist, the infrastructure components behind PowerDNS Protect. PowerDNS Protect takes care of handling, analyzing, and, if necessary, blocking of specific DNS requests for all devices connected to a network. The integrated filtering engine makes use of best in breed threat intelligence to provide protection from malware and phishing:

  • Blocks access to known bad malware sites including drive-by downloads, ransomware, and hacked websites
  • Blocks access to known phishing sites to prevent credential theft and exposure to malware
  • Blocks access to servers that correspond to known malware Command and Control (C2) endpoints and thus detecting potentially infected devices, including IoT devices
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PowerDNS Protect Platform Filter Server

The PowerDNS Protect Platform Filter provides a REST API for customer applications and GUIs. This is end-user focused and includes support for end-user configuration, authentication/authorization, etc. The APIs can be used to integrate with customer OSS/BSS systems, existing mobile apps, self-care portals, and customer care systems. The API supports OAUTH2 for authorization, enabling easy embedding into existing apps or services.

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Optimizes Costs and Adds Value

Compared with similar solutions based on DPI, PowerDNS Protect is extremely efficient – as it’s based on DNS filtering. It requires only a tiny percentage of network traffic to be controlled, rather than every packet. The deployment options are extremely flexible, whether distributed or centralized, and the solution supports NFV-style functionality, such as cloud orchestration APIs. PowerDNS Protect is also a great way to offer your subscribers a value-added service, and the additional layer of security creates customer stickiness. In addition, PowerDNS Protect can generate additional revenue as part of a premium package or offered as an upsell option.

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Additional Protection for Your Infrastructure

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Detects infected devices on the network communicating with malware command and control servers.

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Blocks compromised IoT devices before they launch DDoS attacks.

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Blocks access to known malware, phishing, and botnet Command & Control domains.

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End-user security dashboard provides insight into compromised device and malicious activities.

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DNS-based - works even for encrypted traffic.

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Low hardware footprint, highly scalable, superior price-performance ratio.

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