10/07/2026
A bank in Brazil lost all 36 of its domains for five hours in 2016.
Its firewall and WAF reported zero breaches, because nothing was breached in the way those tools detect. The DNS records were changed instead, and every visitor got routed to infrastructure the attackers controlled.
DNS sits above your firewall, not behind it. Control the DNS, and you control where the traffic goes, regardless of how strong the application security is.
Mastercard had a similar gap. One typo in a DNS record went undetected for nearly five years, exposing a fifth of its traffic. In 2026, a Russian state-linked group hijacked DNS across 200+ organisations before US authorities shut it down.
Secure DNS closes this gap. DNSSEC makes tampering detectable before traffic moves. Anycast routing reroutes traffic automatically if one node is attacked. Real time monitoring flags unauthorised changes the moment they happen.
Is DNS inside your security review, or still sitting outside it?
Dhruva, an official initiative by the Karnataka Digital Economy Mission delivered by VergeCloud, includes DNS security as part of its cloud infrastructure commitment.
Applications close 31st July.
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