Easy DNS Change To Prevent Attacks

1.1.1.2 and 1.1.1.3 for Safer Home and Small Business Networks

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My last blog post about SASE explains how new cybersecurity solutions use distributed architectures on global networks to enhance performance and security. You can leverage the power of one of these global networks and threats they identify for free on any system. One pretty simple change will work for most home networks and small businesses and can also help protect children by using a service called CloudFlare for Families.

A quick explanation of DNS for the non-technical folks

When you go to a website, you enter a domain name like 2ndSightLab.com into the browser, or you click a link, which essentially does the same thing automatically.

Your browser sends a request to look up the IP address for that domain name. An IP address is a value that looks like the 1.1.1.1 at the top of this post, except the 1’s will be different numbers. Maybe it’s 123.123.123.123 or…