Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 67 | Page 68

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Anthony James , VP of Product Marketing at Infoblox
If you take the time to read all of the reports , you will find a commonality of tools most organisations invested in . VPN took the lion ’ s share of investments in the past 12 months . However , DDI and DNS technologies are growing in popularity . 41 % deployed cloud managed DDI ( DNS , DHCP and IP management ) servers as security controls . When hunting down a threat source , 40 % relied on network flow data that DDI provides , 39 % used DNS queries , and 39 % used outside threat intelligence services .
What I also found interesting is how each country diverged in the types of threats or vulnerabilities they were most concerned about in the next 12 months . Here are some examples that bring to life the fact that every region / country may face a common set of cyberthreats ; they may differ in the order of importance :
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