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OpenDNS Your Family Why Everyone Should Be Using OpenDNS at Home Saturday, July 9, 2011

OpenDNS Your Family by Glen Roberts

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OpenDNS Your FamilyWhy Everyone Should Be Using OpenDNS at Home

Saturday, July 9, 2011

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Home Use Benefits

Security Defense

Parental Controls

Performance Boost

Reporting

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Security DefenseProtect your family from bad sites that contain malware that could infect your systems

Prevent phishing email scams from being successful by blocking access to bad sites linked to in phishing emails

PhishTank fraud protection from emails and sites that try to get your personal and credit card info

Proxy anonymizer blocking

Botnet protection

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Parental ControlsProtect your children from inappropriate content

You choose which sites and content to block

Web filtering is configurable by categories or at the site level

Whitelisting and blacklisting

Use customized block pages that tell your kids why a site is blocked

Your guests are protected when using your family WiFi

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Performance BoostFaster domain name resolution than your local ISP can handle

OpenDNS is cloud-based vs. software-based methods for boosting web browsing performance

No software needs to be installed on any endpoints

A quick update to your wireless router will help protect all your family’s computers, mobile phones, tablets, entertainment devices and gaming systems

100% uptime for the past four years

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Reporting

Web-based reporting dashboard can be accessed from anywhere in the world

Activity at home can be monitored while you are at work

View browsing history from all devices on your network

Review attempts to access blocked content

Identify infected machines phoning home

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OpenDNS FactsLargest DNS host in the world

12 data centers worldwide

Over 20 million users

27 billion queries/day

500,000 requests/second during peak time

Over 40,000 schools use OpenDNS

33% of American public schools use OpenDNS

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About Glen Roberts

Glen Roberts is an IT management professional working on his Master of Science in Information Security Management degree at the SANS Technology Institute.

You can reach Glen by email at [email protected] or by phone at (512) 966-3425.

Glen’s personal website is www.glenroberts.com.

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